Bumbershoot.
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A couple of years ago the indefatigable ktschwarz linked to Ben Yagoda’s
2011 Slate essay on why Americans think bumbershoot is British, but I
suspect not ...
12 hours ago
... and other delicious recipes
you had to bail every day because the wooden boats were so leaky, in 1974 a woman gave me her boat for fifteen pounds because she'd come to hate it. I bailed both boats every day and got hers fixed up, then sold it for three thousand pounds and took off to South America but my lodger sublet my boat and the sub-letter wouldn't bail - I got a call to say the boat had sunk but I still had the mooring and a thousand pounds so I bought this boat - this one's got a steel hull.
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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort