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Comments for lea
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My mother almost named me Solveig (actually "Solveiga" is what's on the name day calendar). Anyway, please tell you friend she has a wonderful name.
February 11, 2010
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:-)
February 10, 2010
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Hello Me @ Wordnik. I almost didn't recognize you. Long time no see, I just tweet.
January 13, 2010
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☕
August 8, 2009
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You have found the meaning of life. The pure essence of humanity! (I agree. I could tattoo that message on those pics on my forehead most of my mornings.)
April 1, 2009
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Does this remind us of somebody? ;-)
Forgive me, I've been wanting to post a few comments on your blog but for the life of me can't manage to do it. Just let me say here it's thoughtfulness is both striking and entertaining.
April 1, 2009
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Lea,
what's the name of Mr. Clean in Finland? If it's different from those listed here, can you add it?
March 29, 2009
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Ah, so these are cloudberries! Thanks for the explanation. Mmm, berries :-)
March 18, 2009
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The berries are "cloudberries". (Lakka | muurain.) Quite expensive ones, they are common on the northen swamps, but you can find them in the southen part of Finland as well.. Some people think cloudberry liquer is nectar of The Gods, but I personally hate it. I think I am blue(and rasp)berry person myself. -- And strawberry. I grew up in a place called Strawberry Hill.
March 18, 2009
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Lea Lea! I received a postcard today from Finland with some kind of orange berries pictured. All the card says about the picture is 'lakkoja rasiassa'. Can you please tell me what kind of berries they are?
March 18, 2009
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That would be great on a toast.
March 12, 2009
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We have a bit of spare sunlight here, although I must say it's of the bleak and extremely hot variety. Anyway, I'll put some in a jar and send it over for you to try out.
March 12, 2009
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Sanna is also a common family name in Sassari, Sardinia.
March 6, 2009
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Call it woman's intuition. Sometimes it actually works... ;o]
March 6, 2009
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And you already answered my second question. Thanks!
March 6, 2009
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Might as well ask you, Lea :-) Is Sanna a Finnish name?
March 6, 2009
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Thank you, Bilby!
February 28, 2009
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I mega-loved the sketches on your blog Lea - funny and biting themes, appealing designs and interesting variation in the backgrounds and the overall look of the frames (eg. the black balloons in the Hate panel. Especially snortled at the queen and the flowers, top stuff!
February 28, 2009
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Vista ... best thing I can say is that it rhymes with barrista :-)
February 28, 2009
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A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!
February 28, 2009
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I just got Vista. I surely hope it involves this convenient little java program you mentioned... among all the other weird things it carries in its huge whale belly.
February 28, 2009
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I only click Java links that cause fresh coffee to pour forth from the USB port.
February 28, 2009
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Me neither.
Coffee to you too!
February 28, 2009
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I love coffee, I loathe tea
I don't click javascript and youtube links...
February 27, 2009
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Coffee!
February 27, 2009
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Comments by lea
lea commented on the word kape
Coffee in Ilocano Maysa pay, please would be 'Another one, please'.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word kafes
Greek for coffee.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word gafae
Ask for gafae in Thailand, coffee addict. Sources: http://www.thai2english.com/search/coffee+
http://www.langmaker.com/x.htm
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word cafea
Romanian word for coffee.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word kawa
Polish for coffee. Seems to be also in the French dictionary.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word cafeum
(This entry was in Finnish Online dictionary as a Latvian word. The Dic is based of Wiktionary - obviously the language in question was Latin. Wiktionary is based on us, i.e. I consider it as human error horror, as I consider myself in this case, too. Didn't check it in a proper way.)
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word fika
Swedish for coffee. Also a verb: to drink coffee.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word kofe
These words of mine for coffee are found from The Net, but I knew there are people here who are more than willing to correct them, if they are not quite right. Thank you.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word button
Push The Red Button.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word dime
One thousand is called a "dime". It is a term that gamblers have been using forever.
- A comment in Language Hat's blog. John linked there earlier @ sawbuck.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the list lifeforms-with-which-id-like-to-communicate
I haven't seen spider-stuff yet, but one mosquito said this to animal communicator as he was hanging in the ceiling of a shower:
"I'm hiding in here so you don't murder me too!"
The AC in question was Lisa Fraser: http://www.lisafraserac.com/ .
(The spider is more scared of you, than you are of him. He goes away, if you tell him to. I use that technique myself, with all the bugs that bug me.)
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word huey, dewey and louie
In Swedish: Knatte, Fnatte and Tjatte.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word huey, dewey and louie
In Finnish they are: Tupu, Hupu and Lupu. Order is different, though.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word smurffi
Finnish for smurf.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word love to pieces
I've heard this many times (last time it was Marge who said about Homer "I love him to pieces.") (And I was like "awww..") but I can't help it, that the phrase feels like a thing a serial killer/stalker would say. Maybe they do. I wouldn't know. This kind of phrases are the reason why I love English language - to pieces.
March 7, 2009
lea commented on the word pizza
'Yeast pillow
sailing
through the green
oregano air, floats
down into the bubbling
rumors of tomatoes,
the gossip
of basil and bay leaves,
stretches at the red
aromatic massage,
dreams in layers
of mozzarella, the black
oval dozings of olives
humming in the sun,
dough that naps
in the glow
of laughter,
round appetite,
cicular carpet
shrugging
at knives and forks,
tattles
in many tongues,
international traveler
riding red pepper cloud-currents,
cruising the seas,
rising
to grins
that pull the melted
cheese, queso, fromage, kaas, ser, keshi, ocha,
queijo, käse, panir, nailao, queixo,
formatge, brinzeu, cascaval, bú, formagio
from country to country,
wrapping around us and
our gold floating globe.
"Ode to Pizza" by Pat Mora.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the user lea
Call it woman's intuition. Sometimes it actually works... ;o]
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word oh my god
This gives me creeps. Especially, if it is screamed near my ear. -- Just like I love you, because it is so worn out phrase that nobody remembers what it means. Like Christmas. Bah. I'm sad. Pissed off. Sad. I don't know.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the user lea
Yes. Sanna is quite common Finnish name (women only). Sanni too.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word shekinah
The feminine side of Holy Spirit. What a wonderful word.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word charging baby tapirs!
-- One somehow feels united with a tapir
In a way that seldom seems appropriate --
From a poem called Encounter with a Tapir.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word soup
Fierce and stupid all dogs are
and some worse. I learned this
early by walking to school
unarmed and unprepared
for big city life, which they
had been bred to for centuries.
The chow who barred my way
snarling through his black lips
taught me I was tiny and helpless
and that if he grew more determined
I could neither talk nor fight,
and my school books, my starred exams,
my hand-woven woolen mittens, a gift
of my grandmother, would fall
to the puddled sidewalk and
at best my cold sack of lunch
might buy me a few moments
to prepare my soul before I slept.
I inched by him, smelling the breath
hot and sour as old clothes.
He did nothing but rave, rising
toward me on his hind legs
and choking against the collar
which miraculously held. Later,
years later, delivering mail
on bicycle in the new California,
I was set on by a four-footted moron
who tore at my trousers even
as I drummed small rocks off
his head
. I dreamed that headbecame soup, and the small eyes stared
out into the bright dining room
of the world’s great dog lovers,
and they ate and wept by turns
while I pedaled through the quiet streets
bringing bad news and good to
the dogless citizenry of Palo Alto.
The shepherd dog without sleep
who guards the gates to sleep wakens
each night as my tiny boat
begins to drift out on the waters
of silence. He bays and bays
until the lights come on, and I
sit up sweating and alarmed, alone
in the bed I came to call home.
Now I am weary of fighting and carry
at all times small hard wafers
of dried essence of cat to purchase
a safe way among the fanged masters
of the avenues. If I must come back
to this world let me do so as the lion
of legend, but striped like an alley cat.
Let me saunter back the exact way
I came turning each corner to face
the barking hosts of earth until they
scurry for cover or try pathetically
to climb the very trees that earlier
they peed upon and shamed. Let their pads
slide upon the glassy trunks,
weight them down with exercise books,
sacks of postcards, junk mail, ads,
dirty magazines, give them three kids
in the public schools, hemorrhoids,
a tiny fading hope to rise above
the power of unleashed, famished animals
and postmasters, give them two big feet
and shoes that don’t fit, and dull work
five days a week. Give them my life.
Philip Levine
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the list lifeforms-with-which-id-like-to-communicate
It's only money talking... nothing else. Do you ever wonder who made "The Money God" in the first place? We did it ourselves! We as humans somehow managed to give all our power to money. That is what has to change. Maybe the change is happening right now as we speak.. as the so called "depression" is spreading around.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the list lifeforms-with-which-id-like-to-communicate
I have had my suspicions about Shatner. I must say I am not surprised at all. I can sleep in peace now, when I know the truth.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the list lifeforms-with-which-id-like-to-communicate
Yes.. Even actuaries, cheesemites & shatners. Everyone is contributing here. In a very special, unique and divine way. That is what we all came here to do. To experience life in physical form...
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the list lifeforms-with-which-id-like-to-communicate
Thousands of animal communicators all over the world do communicate with divine... animals. All life is divine. To me, anyway. Some people disagree, and they are free to do so. We all have a free will on this planet. That is the name of the play here. That's why this place is far from boring... but sometimes it makes this planet.. dangerous to live on.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word shiva
Parvati's hubby.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the list lifeforms-with-which-id-like-to-communicate
William Shatner... Who wants to communicate with that life form.. You have to be drunk to do that...eh? ;o] Keep going.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word animal communication
Yay, do the list! Animal communicators DO communicate with ALL life. It is very simple, really. And an innate ability in every human. We all have a heart. That's all it takes.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word drunk
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."
Charles Baudelaire
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word animal communication
Teenagers have more walls around themselves against the world, than animals, but it could help, yes. ;o]
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word animal communication
" Animal communication is very important now and in the upcoming years. The lives of humans must expand by communication with all life or they cannot grow spiritually. It is not for the animals – we already communicate. It is for you. "
Briana (horse),
through animal communicator Anita Curtis
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word banana
Like safe sex? Hardly.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word garfield
Garfield removed.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word banana
What a dsgn piece of horror. Bananapocalypse. Now.
March 6, 2009
lea commented on the word alas
To an eager, admiring dog I usually say 'ALAS', with a very low and determined voice. (If you start to laugh - or even worse - giggle after that, you only get your face licked. I hope to God it never happens in a bar with an eager admirer. :o})
March 5, 2009
lea commented on the word whorehound
I have heard some pets act like they actually were one!
March 5, 2009
lea commented on the word alas
Down! (=Finnish) as you would say to a dog, for example. Or to an eager admirer in a bar, around the wee hours.
March 5, 2009
lea commented on the word lea
Hawaiian goddess of canoe makers.
March 5, 2009
lea commented on the word we've got to get a reading on those pants, up or down!
Well, I haven't blown my funny fuse yet, since I was laughing at the pants stuff so much yesterday, that I almost peed in my pants.
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the word funny fuse
I blew my funny fuse. -Cartman, South Park. (Goddammit!)
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the list mating-rituals
Yup. That too. :o]
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the word dum
In Swedish: half-witted, dumb, foolish, moron, dull, idiotic, sheepish, silly, stupid.
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the word bibliosphresiophilia
Alas! Cantankerous Nordic scholars are the worst.
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the word lumensilta
Lumen = light in Latin, silta = bridge in Finnish. An animal communication term, first mentioned in Amelia Kinkade's second book, The language of miracles. Coincidentally, it literally means "bridge of snow" in Finnish.
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the word bibliosphresiophilia
Unfortunately I have forgotten that. It might have been written in Latin. It was old and not available to customers.
March 4, 2009
lea commented on the word we've got to get a reading on those pants, up or down!
"That's no pants. It's a space station."
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word pumpuli
cotton,
cottonwool.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word mariquita
A fine drink, it is, indeed! Give me another, bartender..
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Yup. Sometimes it does. But not always. :o)
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word bibliosphresiophilia
Imagine the smell, when I found a fishbone of a smoked herring between the pages of a book. And it happened in the National Library! Academic people! Many librarians have been traumatized while sniffing books. Check the Facebook group called: Don't Mess With Me, I Worked in a Public Library, for example.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Inadequate or "inadequote"? :o] Don't sleep then, go for a walk and roar like a lion!
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." :o} We are different, which is good. It would be quite boring otherwise. And we all have that ugly head somewhere in the closet. Sometimes it wants to come out and play.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Maybe she meant that culture vulture = dullard? I thought so.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
Hehe... R is for revolution. ;o] I like folk speak, net speak, weird sayings & places like Urban Dictionary. Break the glass and speak to me in case of emergency.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the list gil-blas
Yes, I get a different kick out of sniffing old books and when sniffing new books... (I have worked in the public library and I know how dirty books can get. Some people wipe their books with wet cloth before they read them - or give them to the hands of their children. I think it is wise sometimes.)
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word eyeopener
Something that provides a sudden insight, or a surprise; also an attractive woman. It can also mean a drink of liquor taken early in the day & intended to wake a person up fully.
(Ninja, dictionary.com and wiktionary.)
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word culture vulture
She won't go to a funny film. She's a real culture vulture.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word epitaph
Good idea, Treeseed. I'll do that. -- However, my own personal choice in case of possible death would be: "Screw you guys, I'm going home!"
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the list gil-blas
I don't mind... I like e-books. I have one copy of Blas on my mobile now. Another on the computer. ;o)
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word single
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the list gil-blas
Thanks for the inspiration. I had to download the book today, after I saw your quote from it under the word pet earlier. I need something... different than usual to read, I think.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word lactose
Where else could a person get such a... dungylicious idea??!
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word lactose
Well, I do South Park, but I have missed that one obviously.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word oompa-loompa
Why does Johnny Depp do chocolate related acting, even when he hates chocolate furiously? Must be deppressing. Just asking. (You can mail me the answer, Monsieur Depp.)
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word lactose
Buttermillk and pigments, for example, are not poisonous, like many paints are. It is also easier to use, if you want to make corrections to your work, like this faux marble, while at it. You finish your work wit lacquer, of course.. Otherwise it would vanish up in the air... It is traditional and also organic way to paint. Diarrhea instead.. You never know what it is made of. ;o]
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word lactose
But lactose is very useful, if you want to paint something. With buttermilk you can. You can paint with Coca-Cola, too. Ask any decorative painter.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the list •-little-pains-in-my-butt
Yes! Emotions! Yes! Yuk...
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word love
Cat ladies are good to have around, rolig. ;o} I am going to join the club some day. (Hey you, rolig means fun/nice in swedish, so, if nomen est omen, you are going to be just fine...) Vole is a new word for me... Maybe your boyfriends have been voletile....? Hmmph. I got madeupical away, didn't I?
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word love
H♥me. Where ever it is. People who talk about love excessively are usually the ones who do not know a thing about it... ;o| That is my sad, personal, experience.
March 3, 2009
lea commented on the word inkball
"Serial Time-Killer." Computer Shopper referring to Inkball game (in Vista operating system). Almost like Wordie. :o}
March 2, 2009
lea commented on the word good grief
Charlie Brown is The Master of Good Grief. (Grief is always good. If you do not grief, your heart is dead, and that's not good.. for anyone.)
March 2, 2009
lea commented on the word good grief
Helpful book for some, I'm sure. Sometimes it hurts when other people leave us, just like that, and go back Home.
March 2, 2009
lea commented on the word bizarre spheniscidine confectionery dispenser diorama
Awww... ..eeew.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word good grief
I thought to myself good grief, when I saw the previous page and the quote over there. Going to google now.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word cherie
One of the tastiest words to my ears. Especially "ma chérie". Too bad I am not French myself. (The French do chérie.)
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word ogle
I love google. I ogle google very amorously on a daily basis, because you never know what you'll find next.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word persnickety
Yes. I can see myself in the future - and I still can remember this word vividly - because perse means ass|buttocks in Finnish. So, s-version it is, for me.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word nuts
"Kick me in the nuts." - The Dudesons.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word cunning
When you have seen your own cunning,
follow it back to its origin.
What is below comes from above.
Come on, turn your eyes to the heights.
Rumi
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word taken
Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word lullaby
A place where to live! No? I wish.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word heaven
Friedrich Nietzsche: 'In heaven all the interesting people are missing.'
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word bellibone
Compare to bonnibel.
March 1, 2009
lea commented on the word ring ring
Haloo?
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word ring ring
Thank God, the vibration mode was invented.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word bonnibel
A handsome girl. French expression bonne et belle, good and beautiful. Compare to bellibone.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word hard hat
Thank you, rolig!
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word equine
Latin equinus, from equus horse; akin to Old English eoh horse, Greek hippos, Sanskrit aśva. Date: 1776.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word hel
Airport, Helsinki-Vantaa.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word 42
Answer to any question of which you don't know the answer.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word tweet love muffin
The nickname generator loves me.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word hoi polloi
Definitely a favourite of mine. Hoi=ohoy and pollo=chicken. Chickens, hello! Perfect.. in my inner dictionary. The languages I refer to are Finnish and Italian. But you probably knew that. (Ohoi is pirate language in Finnish.)
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word hard hat
Why can't people just say helmet?
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the user lea
Thank you, Bilby!
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word mating ritual
Mating rituals: God's own Mad TV.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word mating jacket
Kill Libido, Vol. I, that jacket, but some of those lines might actually work... Except that latex thingy. I'm allergic to that stuff. That's the Kill Libido Vol. II.
I think the sight of that jacket never leaves my retina. Powerfull stuff. Have to go to sleep now and hope for the best.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word rigamarole
I know, but it has Italian temperament and personality. In my head, anyway...
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word crumbs
-- And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new
E.E. Cummings
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word nerd
"And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!"
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word haply
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Christina Rossetti
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word nuzzle
I have never nuzzled with anyone. I swear.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word potato
A person with a weird shaped body. Could be anyone!
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word ankle-biter
A small person or a rug rat.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word rigamarole
Stephen Crane, "The Monster":
Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole. 1899.
(They say The Americans do it this way. I like it, since it is more italian... Mamma mia! However, I choose no sides, since I have completely another continent myself... ;o})
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word intuition
Come to Mama.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word rigamarole
PS. And this is so Italian. In so many ways...!
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the user lea
I just got Vista. I surely hope it involves this convenient little java program you mentioned... among all the other weird things it carries in its huge whale belly.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word rigamarole
My life IS one big rigamarole. Damn! This word IS the meaning of life. *now I know why I felt like returning to wordie, I never would have known this otherwise* Oh, dear.
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the user lea
Me neither.
Coffee to you too!
February 28, 2009
lea commented on the word babble
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
February 27, 2009
lea commented on the word scorn
O God of earth and altar
Bow down and hear our cry
Our earthly rulers falter
Our people drift and die
The walls of gold entombe us
The swords of scorn divide
Take not thy thunder from us
But take away our pride.
G.K. Chesterton
March 19, 2008
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