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I have a Friend who loves to go back and search The Family Tree.
If I visit Western Maryland, and open a phone book to:` James, boohoo.
Some of James's ancestors were coal minors, or orchardist, From Wales.
No trace ancestors via phone book. That leads to self 'mediating' drunks.
Sometimes. The twit-offspring, the pampered adult, can bring harsh, sudden ruin.
-H.L. Mencken's 'Notebook 71, 1956. Here's a cool word for egghead *bibliobibuli.
-There are people who read too much, 'bibiobibuli', and I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other people are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through the most diverting and stimulating of world,
and are in a haze, seeing nothing,
and hearing nothing. I share that.
It's generic, and war grunts do say:
And okay: `It Don't Mean Nothin'.
Lexicographer, Noah Webster, attended Yale. He trembled when he finished his work of compiling a Dictionary. He "completed" his task he said:`Mr Webster could barely hold a pen when he was at the near end of his goal. He had to walk around the room for a few minutes to summon the strength to finish the last word. He recovered. Webster once was asked by a Naval officer, Basil Hall. Why he considered 'Americanisms' unworthy of consideration in the book? Noah Webster responded:`There are enough words already. (I love garlic and basil)
There is a friendly fisherman in Nova Scotia. His wife makes great chowder. We eat & chatter.
