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Archetectural Terms, Indy Pop Bands, and Microbrews

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An unexpected second installment to repurpose archaic terms for as Indy Pop bands names or Micro brew beers.  This time architecture terms. Acanthus Scroll   Ashyler   Baluster Bargeboard Battlements Blind Arch Broken Pediment Corinthian Order Egg and Dart Fenestration Festoon Hewn and Peg Nulling Splat Stopped Flutes Wattle and Daub  

Humanity App

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Humanity App  (Quatrain with a bad rhyme) Go to our website  Or download our app Your call is very important to us We've got a chat bot for that  

In Name Only

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                  I've become fixated with names. Names of people, products, places, and companies. Anything that gets a name. This post is a collection of riffs mostly about names of people I like from the books I've read so far this year.  From the second book in Sir Osbert Sitwell's memoir, Great Morning Miss Primrose Miss Figglestone Sir Titus Tittlebyte Lady Viola Tree and her daughters, Iris and Felicity and husband Sir Herbert . They could be depended upon to supply an entertainment of the most delicious personal fantasy based on the flimsiest and most delicate foundation of sense. Lady Tree when offered two kinds of fish at dinner, 'Ye cannot serve both Cod and Salmon.' Another icthyophoagous bon-mot when offered Haddock responded, 'Cry Haddock and let slip my dogs of war!' On her death bed, she referred to her lawyer coming to her bedside to teach her death duties.   More names from another book, Kearny's March Aquilla Gl...

Old Golf Clubs, Indy Pop Bands, and Microbrews

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Is there opportunity in this world to repurpose Old Golf club names as Indy Pop bands (plural) or Micro brew beers (singular). The Spade Mashies Pitching Niblicks Wooden Cleeks The Baffie Spoons The Brassies  The Jiggers