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 ...
1 hour ago
... and other delicious recipes
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
[telephone conversation]
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Shop: Hello. You Me Bum Bum Train!
Caller: Uh ... beg pardon?
Shop: You Me Bum Bum Train!
Caller: Creep.
[hangs up]
That must happen
DeleteIt reminds me...there used to be a Chinese takeaway place in Camden.Jolly good chow mein, but a disconcerting exhortation to "go back for noodle boys."
ReplyDeleteoops! what they said was : "go back door for noodle boys."
ReplyDeleteSo appetising!
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