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That's the nicest thing I can say about either one.

Ah. You're not required to say anything nice about politicians you dislike.

Andre Jute wrote: "And?"

It's Ironically hilarious, yet horribly tragic, that Hinkley put a bullet in Reagan, who wasn't supposed to survive, but did because the military grade explosive bullet didn't detonate.

Why Ironic?

Hinkley
Recorded as Hinckley, Hinckly, Hinkley, and Inchley, this is an English locational surname. It originates from the town of Hinckley in the county of Leicestershire, the place being first recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1986 as Hinchelie.

The meaning of the place name and hence the later surname according to the Dictionary of English Place Names, is 'Hynca's leah,' or the farm of a person called Hynca, but other interpretations are very possible. 'Hynca' is a name found quite often in early records of the English Midlands, suggesting that it was tribal. Locational surnames are usually 'from' names. That is to say that they were names given to people after they left their original homes to move somewhwere else. The easiest way to identy such people being to call them by the name of their former home.

In this case early examples of the surname recording taken from surviving church registers of the county of Leicester include: Richard Hinckley who married Ceclia Xpian at Melton Mowbray, on November 28th 1596, Symond Inchley, who was christened at Medbourne, on September 29th 1620, and Richard Hinkley, a witness at Quorndon, on December 1st 1641, during the reign of King Charles 1st, (1625 - 1649).
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If the connection was ever given to Maggie at the time, she may have blushed while covering her mouth, or whatever Brits do when their country is historically linked to a maniac who used a gun to attempt to kill their favorite American.

Then again, it is quite a stretch.

:)

12) Wake snakes — get into mischief. “So I went on a regular wake snakes sort of a spree, and I went here and there turnin’, twistin’ and doublin’ about until I didn’t know where or who I was,” a man testified in court as to why he was intoxicated, according to the New Orleans, La., Times Picayune of Aug. 15, 1842.

Mmm. Sorta "let sleeping snakes dream on".

Kench!

Daniel wrote: "Back in 1997, I was at a political convention in Autin, Texas, where the RNC rules panel was to discuss the upcoming electorial districts. So I arrive, a newly registered voter, with the intent to..."

Too good!

K.A. wrote: "throttlebottom (n.): a dishonest man who holds public office.
Example: “’That Mitch McConnel is a downright throttlebottom!’ said the Tea Party supporter who feigned political opinions so he could ..."

Oh my, must add that to my lexicon (especially as it mentions only 'a man', kench).

Yep, it's a genderfied word.

"Throttlebottom" is an archaic word from a time before women aspired to Tammany Hall and thus were presumed to be honest.

I'm not sure if I got this one on the other list, but it bears repeating:

Snollygoster
An unprincipled politician. Though I really didn’t need to tell you that, you can basically feel the word’s meaning from its sound. It was a 19th century slang word that probably was a derivation of “snallygaster,” which was a mythical beast that supposedly haunted the hills around Washington, DC.

Wasn't there a snallygaster in a book by Washington Irving, the Stephen King of an earlier period? Can't remember whether it was a vampire hunting Abraham Lincoln or a resentful and violent hunchback. Mmm. Or am I thinking of Alexandre Dumas pere Goes Hollywood with Gidget?

Now there's a conundrum, which is a barrel built (and patented) by Dr Arthur Conan Doyle to cup a cracked scapula.

Yes, I think so. Quite a word.

1. AFTERNOONIFIED
A society word meaning “smart.” Forrester demonstrates the usage: “The goods are not ‘afternoonified’ enough for me.”
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4. BAGS O’ MYSTERY
An 1850 term for sausages, “because no man but the maker knows what is in them. … The ‘bag’ refers to the gut which contained the chopped meat.”
5. BANG UP TO THE ELEPHANT
This phrase originated in London in 1882, and means “perfect, complete, unapproachable.”
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11. BUTTER UPON BACON
Extravagance. Too much extravagance. “Are you going to put lace over the feather, isn’t that rather butter upon bacon?”
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15. COLLIE SHANGLES
Quarrels. A term from Queen Victoria’s journal, More Leaves, published in 1884: “At five minutes to eleven rode off with Beatrice, good Sharp going with us, and having occasional collie shangles (a Scottish word for quarrels or rows, but taken from fights between dogs) with collies when we came near cottages.”
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18. DAMFINO
This creative cuss is a contraction of “damned if I know.”
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31. JAMMIEST BITS OF JAM
“Absolutely perfect young females,” circa 1883.
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52. SMOTHERING A PARROT
Drinking a glass of absinthe neat; named for the green color of the booze

Smothering a parrot!

I wonder, Mr Fitzgerald, how that will play in Paris?

LOL!

F. Scott Fitzgerald: It'll tenderize the night, for sure.

Neat absinthe? That just sounds nasty. The stuff is made with wormwood, which smells nasty.

For serious drinkers seeking oblivion?

(Shudder)

Mainly a French disease, I think. People used to go blind there from Absinthe, until it was banned, I seem to recall as late as the 1930s.

Some form of it is legal again. Here in the US, I think.

They call it "The Green Fairy" which most likely should be "The Green Seeing-Eye Dog".

Green being not the colour of the dog's eyes but its hair the last time the owner saw it... That stuff will drive you demented.

Kench!

Good thing I gave up mind-altering chemicals. I might be tempted to try the stuff. The more I read about it, the more I think I need to put it in my Zombie Apocalypse books.

I need a demented anti-hero to be the 'tormented Heathcliff' type.

And if in The Chaos absinthe is all that is available to drink (because, being chemical, it is easier to make than real liquor...), so he has a reason to drink it.

I'll make sure he's French. LOL What's a good French name?

Something with a ring to it...

Rapidé San Sculotte-Cafard.

Wow. That's a grand name.

Thank you.

Ooooops! It's a joke name I thought up for a pornographer when Daniel needed one. You were there, joking about it. I thought you'd recognize the pantless cockroaches. See https://www.goodreads.com/group/comme...

Oops, it's been awhile since I read that.

"Cafard" rang a bell though.

I've been distracted. I'm about to skewer a scoundrel - see my blog. I'm about to put a painter out of business.

www.kajordan.net

Sort of person you'd really like to take a stick to...

Truly.

The cool thing about Social Media is the international impact. (evil laugh)

psychostasy, n.
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In various mythologies and belief systems: the judgement of souls by weighing.Commonly supposed in classical mythology to take place during a combat, with the combatant having the lighter soul being slain.
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1970. G. Griffiths in tr. Plutarch De Iside & Osiride 72 A tribunal commonly depicted as a weighing of the soul. This idea of a posthumous judgement was associated with both Rēʿ and Osiris. Psychostasia seems to begin with Rēʿ as the president and judge.

Needed a bit of levity today, a friend fighting cancer has been 'going downhill fast'. Thought I would come here for a kench or two. You guys didn't disappoint! Thanks for the laughs and the camaraderie.

As an aside, friend's hubby suggested a couple of weeks ago when she began to really hit the skids, to hold a 'Celebration of Friends'. He shot off some emails and texts, made a few phone calls and a few days later we gathered at their fave local restaurant's meeting room. They live in a city about a four-hour drive from here, three hours in a diff direction from the city where several of us met. There was never a question of us not going. Found a last-minute room (it's a resort town), threw some things in travel bags and headed out. There were about 100 folk, not a sour face to be found as my friend sat in her wheelchair, frail as a wisp, gracing us with far more smiles than tears as she held court for several hours. What a gift they gave us. Hell of an idea!

ps. Absinthe is once again legal in Canada. THAT's what I needed last night when I got the most recent news! Why didn't I think of that, kench!

Happy to oblige. (As long as I don't have to partake of the absinthe. I like my eyes just the way they are.)

That's a good way to send off a friend. I tend remember the meals in people homes and restaurants, the tennis parties, the tours till dawn through a friend's cellar, rather than the wars and the sporting victories and other achievements.

mésalliance, n.
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A union between two people that is thought to be unsuitable or inappropriate; esp. a marriage with a person of a lower social position.
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1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. xvi. 56 The friends protested, dismayed at such a mesalliance having been arranged for under, so to speak, their auspices.

Dinosaur erotica:

From Wikipedia: "part of the larger genre of monster erotica, is a subgenre of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and dinosaurs. Works include titles such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay."

"Despite their cheesiness ("the Kardashian of crappy erotica") the genre's titles have achieved high sales ranks and significant media interest."

K.A. wrote: "Dinosaur erotica: ...Despite their cheesiness ("the Kardashian of crappy erotica") the genre's titles have achieved high sales ranks and significant media interest."

You're having us on! I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

K.A. wrote: "mésalliance, n.
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A union between two people that is thought to be unsuitable or inappropriate; esp. a marriage with a person of a lower social position.
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1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idio..."

Once a common word in a certain level of society. Jane Austen's little sister and the unsuitable captain... I always liked them better than the pompous ass Darcy.

Andre Jute wrote: "K.A. wrote: "Dinosaur erotica: ....

You're having us on! I almost fell out of my chair laughing."

Sadly, it's not a put on. There are several of these gems for sale on Amazon and Smashwords.

Daniel needs to upload his bug-porn to Amazon and put it in KDP select/unlimited.

K.A. wrote: "Daniel needs to upload his bug-porn to Amazon and put it in KDP select/unlimited."

Daniel might make a buck, but I don't think the consumers of porn have a sense of humor.

Stolen from The Passive Voice blog:

hapax legomenon, n.
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Chiefly in linguistic and literary studies: a word or word form which is recorded only once in a text, in the work of a particular author, or in a body of literature.
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1774 J. Rhudde Ribband (ed. 3) (Annotations section), The word ‘Ribband’, is of that order, called, hapax legomenon, [h.e. [sic] a word, found occurring but once] in respect, we mean, of our English Bible.
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1957 C. Brooke-Rose Lang. of Love iv. 34 She saw herself go through the minutiæ of scansion, dialect forms, emendation, haplography, hapax legomena and anacolutha in Beowulf.

Ha! I committed a hapax legomenon. It's "lindavan" which appears only once in all literature, in the dedication to my novel Iditarod:

For Linda
Should I be allowed
to coin only one word,
it would be
lindavan (lin’-da-van’)
n, Lit. sl., a writer’s friend-at-court
[name of person]

I just wanted to say hello! And now I must go for I suffer from hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Hi!

I love that word. (runs off to google it.)

Hello, Sue!

demonagogue, n.
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A medicine used to exorcize a demon.
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1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Oct. 1048/1 The treatment of the effects of witchcraft was so frequently called for in medical practice that almost every therapeutist had his own favourite demonagogue.

Modernized meaning of
demonagogue, n.
Donald Trump

Trump scares the living daylights out of me. If he gets elected...I'm gonna hide somewhere until he's out of office.

I might immigrate somewhere off the beaten path.