Least said…

V1
“Least said, soonest mended”
Like the day that I pretended
To be MUTE, to end dispute
And silence institute
V2
“Least said, soonest mended,”
Like the day when I pretended
To be MUTE, to end dispute
And silence institute
V3
“Least said, soonest mended,”
Like the day when I pretended
To be MUTE, to end dispute
And silence ;  institute

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Not to be Sneezed at

I’m talking
<ATCHOO !>
not
<T’YOO !!>

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The Scales of Justice

If you “hold someone UP“
- (()you’ll (log ()) that you (yew ?) (sloe ?)) “slow them DOWN“
…unless it’s a “stick up“
and they’re to
DA$H with the CA$H
@ a
“stuck-up” bank host’s (haste) heist……
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Don’t forget to TIP the SCALES OF JUSTICE
to avoid a PRISON SELLOTAPE
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(Remote) e-Learning Product Tester

Given that my teen’-dream of becoming a musical theatre lyricist simply hain’t hevva gonna happen and copywriting (I imagine) is largely about contacts, (thankfully I don’t need THOSE ; or glasses) facility with schmoozability and not losing/”looz”Zzzz-ing a decayed decade trying to be “free” by taking low-pay and then no-pay working for “the family business” [...]

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Better and Better

I’m listening to the Audiobook of Temple Gardin’s “Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior“, and am currently on the ninth CD of 10. It just gets better and BETTER. *Please* read/listen to this book !
She’s just revealed that Mozart had a Starling who helped him refine a tune by adjusting [...]

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cRHYME & PUNishment 0001

If you : “lose the shirt off your back“, do you have to invest in your vest ?

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All that Glisters is not (Glysters or(e)) Gold

I’m reading Maureen Waller’s excellent “1700 – Scenes from London Life“ and have just turned to a Tom Brown quote on page 86 in the chapter covering “Disease” .
A “Glyster” was an enema !
“Clyster”’s the more popular spelling which mighn’t be such great (grating ? (old)) news for Miss Flockhart.

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(‘)Oot with the OWL(ed) and In with the NEWt

Too early (to be as whirly as a bird (unheard)), I was woken (if not shaken or beaten) up by an owl ; an owl, not an ‘owl (or (an) Anne Howell) ; ootside, ‘ooting - ’n’ ting, innit ?
Why is an owl more WISE than “Why is ?” ?
Why is an owl an “owl” and not [...]

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