I suppose that depends on whose bush is taking the beating, Shame.

I forgot to commend Stilly on her contribution of the term "mental flooss", which is so concise as to be shocking in its precision!! Brava!

LH, I know you are a man of good heart and high humor as well, but I just want you to know that you do not fool me for a minute; your glad handed bonhomie is lovely and charmin' but I know who rules the roost behind the squawks of Shatner, Shane, Chongo, and all the rest of those mental flosseries of yours. Do not, I beg you, play the disingenuous simpleton with me, sir.

Ne'er the less, the ballad of Forty Four, with its terrible symmetry and its endless new avenues for rhyme schemes, lies before us, and you can rest assured your vapid menagerie will not winkle me out of making my mark for that much more precious milestone.

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