tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post4129914220701890901..comments2024-03-28T15:17:03.077-04:00Comments on Type M for Murder: Snollygosters and GrumbletoniansBarbara Fradkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992196707567972990noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-22059880690689630102018-02-01T13:38:46.436-05:002018-02-01T13:38:46.436-05:00Isn't that great? Feeling a little more positi...Isn't that great? Feeling a little more positive today. I might actually make my deadline.Sybil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931984219413146614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-92186664179754592172018-02-01T12:14:01.912-05:002018-02-01T12:14:01.912-05:00Ha ha ha ... just watched the photocopier argument...Ha ha ha ... just watched the photocopier argument! Marianne Wheelaghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633342759955709312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-44287754832965109952018-01-31T13:43:15.695-05:002018-01-31T13:43:15.695-05:00Thanks, Marianne. Loved the Frank Kuppner quote. S...Thanks, Marianne. Loved the Frank Kuppner quote. Since I'm doomed anyway, I've been watching a couple videos. I found this one particularly hilarious since I worked at Xerox many moons ago. It's a dramatization of an actual deposition where a lawyer gets in an argument about what a photocopier is. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-a-photocopier.html?_r=0Sybil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931984219413146614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-19659476344192452942018-01-31T13:04:29.435-05:002018-01-31T13:04:29.435-05:00ps And good luck with finishing your ending, Sybil...ps And good luck with finishing your ending, Sybil! Marianne Wheelaghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633342759955709312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-38235426455940278022018-01-31T13:03:06.264-05:002018-01-31T13:03:06.264-05:00For Sybil and Aline from Frank Kuppner!
With a y...For Sybil and Aline from Frank Kuppner! <br /><br />With a yell of triumph he finishes the great work;<br />He slumps back in his seat, exhausted but happy;<br />Idly he fingers through it, and reads the very first lines;<br />Little by little; the smile disappears from his face.<br /><br />Frank Kuppner, A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (Carcanet, 1984)<br /><br />As for interesting words, I used Marianne Wheelaghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633342759955709312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-14817229254153279072018-01-31T12:29:28.724-05:002018-01-31T12:29:28.724-05:00Ah, Aline, endings. Yesterday I was hopeful. Today...Ah, Aline, endings. Yesterday I was hopeful. Today I'm pretty sure I'm doomed.<br /><br />Rick, I'm highly suspicious of the info on soffonsified, but that's all I could find. They used it in SH so I assumed it was a word no longer used from the 1700s. But, it's not in the OED or any other dictionary I could find. All I saw online was the Canadian reference.Sybil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931984219413146614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-36239684370664396062018-01-31T11:39:08.504-05:002018-01-31T11:39:08.504-05:00“suffonsified”
I've never heard this word use...“suffonsified”<br /><br />I've never heard this word used up here north of the 49th parallel.<br /><br />Anyone else? Barbara? Vicki?<br /><br />My family has always used “slugabed“.Rick Blechtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11800052815589987998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-13376014776945747762018-01-31T10:44:46.184-05:002018-01-31T10:44:46.184-05:00Ha ha ha ha – I love your words too!Ha ha ha ha – I love your words too!Marianne Wheelaghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633342759955709312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30210943.post-3744001617831130112018-01-31T07:13:52.552-05:002018-01-31T07:13:52.552-05:00Oh, I am so with you on this one! I too am at tha...Oh, I am so with you on this one! I too am at that awful, towards the ending stage. Perhaps I should take to the dictionary too - I love your words!Aline Templetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01199803927350776150noreply@blogger.com