mid-falutin'

The scene: a family at a skating rink.


Kid: How did it go, daddy?

Dad: Well, I though I did pretty well, but one of the mommies called me an asshole.

Mom: (good-naturedly) Huh, well, I don't think you're an asshole. I think you're a really nice person.

Kid: (indistinct) asserole.

Madagascar officers in coup claim
-BBC headline


President for life!

'It is not enough for me to know what I have in me - everyone must know it (…) everyone must know me, so that my life may not be lived for myself alone while others live so apart from it, but so that it may be reflected in them all, and they and I may live in harmony.'

-Tolstoy, War and Peace

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*blows dust off LJ*

Yep, still works.

lemur_boy explains the care symbols on the label of his towel:



'You can't bring it in a tent'.

palate: the roof of your mouth; also a metaphor for one's taste in food (even though that's your tongue's job) or other matters

palette: an artist's tool for mixing paint; by extension, a range of colours or other artistic options

pallet: a wooden platform used when things are transported by a forklift

And while I'm at it:

cache: a stored quantity of things; a stash (with which it rhymes)

cachet: appeal, allure, aura of desirability; pronounced 'cash-ay'

caché: hidden; a word you can use in French

A capital letter I doesn't need a dot on it! Sheesh.

Except if you're writing in Turkish, and then only some of the time.