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Saturday Word cornucopia (noun) [kohr-nuh-koh-pee-uh] : 1. a curved hollow horn or similarly shapped receptacle overflowing with fruits and vegetables,emblematic of abundance.
2. A horn of plenty
3. an abundant supply.
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4. the name of the best pub in the town where I live...
FTF Giraffes have the same number of neck vertbrae as humans.
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Bet they take more throat lozenges then we do for a sore throat!
Thursday Quote: " Sometimes a short walk down memory lane is all it takes to appreciate where you are today." ~ Susan Gale
Colorado's boundary has 697 sides making it an elaborate polygon.
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Olivia: Quill Voting till 3/15 Author Icon - Probably the same folks who can say that the lowest point in their state is higher than the highest point in 17 other states. *Thumbsupgreen*
Annette ~ back 3/24 Author Icon - Right on the dot, Ma'am.*Laugh* I tend to ignore it, although it's like 15 miles Luftlinie from where I live, and one spit over the Rhein where I grew up. (And vice versa).

Germany + France = es ist kompliziert.*Wink*
FTF In the original version of the fairytale 'The Frog Prince', the princess doesn't turn the frog into a prinvr by kissing him. She does it by thowing him against a wall.
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Sounds a little violent, but then I read somewhere that men are like grapes --- kind of sweet but better after a woman stomps them and lets them ferment and mature a bit until they're not an embarrassment to take to a nice dinner. or summat like
OUCH!
FTF: A tardigrade is a microscopic 8-legged animal. Also known as a 'moss piglet' or a 'water bear', when they are fully grown they are 0.5 mm long.
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They may also be the first creatures to live on the moon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrades_in_space
Adhere - Definitely Writing Author Icon - Wow, imagine trying to make eight-legged space suits!! Amazing they can do that!
Moss piglet? Water bear? Sounds like a couple of Christopher Robbin's friends.
Sunday Word: hackneyed: not interesting or funny because it's been used too many times.
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Right on!
Interestingly, it comes from horse riding. A "hack" was a horse that was no longer useful (hence our term for a lower ladder journalist or writer, a hack), coming from knacker (think knacker's yard and what happens to horses there). So "hackneyed" was to become like the "hack" horse - overused to a point of uselessness.
My ex is known for being hackneyed. *EyesLeft*

Saturday Word: sward: grassy area
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I learnt this word through reading Robert E. Howard. So many swards in the world!
"Don't run across the sward with you sword, Arthur!" Ah... advice from the beloved king's mother.
As recently as 300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens were just one of nine different species on humans on Earth.
Thursday Quote: "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others use your heart."
~Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Wonderful quote.
tj wanderlust-words-in-motion Author Icon - I agree completely.
I've read quite a few insightful quotes by this former first lady. She was obviously a woman of intelligence as well as feelings.
In 1884, four years before Jack the Ripper terrorized London, the Servant Girl Annihilator's murders gripped Austin, Texas to completely stop one year later. (any chance it was Jack looking for the ideal venue?)
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Many thanks for posting this one. One of my current writing projects is a dark romance set during the killing spree of a fictional Ripper-type serial killer. I'll look this one up for possible ideas.
The wood frog injects its own tissue with antifreeze. It fills up with glucose to reduce the size of the ice crystals which it would otherwise would destroy its tissues.
Iceland has the world's highest count of books read and published per capita.
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Detective Author Icon - I love the feel and smell, as well as the content, of an old real book, especially a hardback book! I find no greater comfort in the world.
S 🤦 Author Icon - After the feel and smell of a fine, old, real book, that's my second greatest comfort in this world.
Humble Poet PNG Author Icon - Ditto. I have an e-reader, but sometimes I just want an actual physical book in my hands.
Sunday Word: ceraunophilia (n.) loving thunder and lightning becaus you find them intensely beautiful.
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I love a rainy night too.
Saturday Word: problem (n.): I solve them by creating 3 new ones as distractions.
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I've always said that I've never run into a problem that I couldn't make worse! *Laugh*
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