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06 Jun 21
06 Jun 21
@the-gravedigger saidIt wasn't long before they'd figured out how to grow seedless sensimilla like in series 1 of Narcos Mexico.
Sow they frantically set about sowing parsley and sage and all things herb like.
06 Jun 21
@the-gravedigger saidLuckily, in this case, it didn't really matter because "elbow" had been BOTH a noun AND a verb since the C16th.
But his servants didn't know their nouns from their elbows and thought the King wanted more herbs.
@very-musty saidIs he + the faithful hound ?
He was found in a closet with Ghost of a Duke who is not a Duke!
@very-musty said... which is what the peasants called the seat in the bathroom.
Sadly yes 😔
A disgrace to the throne...
@fmf saidCommentators of the time were banned from using words which nobody understood, such as “kakistocracy”, “somnolent” and “veered” as they were deemed to be insufficiently banal.
The king's regime had veered between authoritarianism and benevolent dictatorship in the early years but had settled on somnolent kakistocracy as its system of governance.
The King considered imprisoning people who used non-banal words. He called a meeting of a few people he new from various places he had been in his youth and more recently but he was struggling to book a meeting room at the castle as the place was in the middle of a cleaning purge due to a mite infestation which wasn’t funny at all, and in fact quite annoying.
@divegeester saidThen it was realised that might was a very banal word.
Commentators of the time were banned from using words which nobody understood, such as “kakistocracy”, “somnolent” and “veered” as they were deemed to be insufficiently banal.
The King considered imprisoning people who used non-banal words. He called a meeting of a few people he new from various places he had been in his youth and more recently but he was struggling t ...[text shortened]... of a cleaning purge due to a mite infestation which wasn’t funny at all, and in fact quite annoying.
As in 'I might have a glass of lemonade next week after my lie down.'
So the infestation was allowed to continue.
07 Jun 21
@the-gravedigger saidas the pandemic of banality grew more and more boring, the intrepid anti-banalitiers
So the infestation was allowed to continue.
recruited amongst the peasants for members,
only to find catatonia had irreversibly set in and was chronic and wasting
