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    Armageddon: The expected end result of wars and conflicts in the modern world.


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    Defensive Driving: Keeping one’s hand and middle finger on the wheel when some idiot drives close to you.

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    Modern World: The 20th century. Those living in the 20th Century are called Modernists, while those living in the 21st Century are termed Postmodernists.

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    Plantation: An establishment dedicated to plants, a bit larger than a backyard vegetable garden.

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    Backyard: A measure of the backside


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    Illusion: Making indirect references to diseases or maladies in a literary work, or to famous individuals who suffered from such health problems.


    Garnish:

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    Garnish: That part of a meal used to flavor or enhance the beauty of prepared foods and best left for the Gods--unless you are very hungry--except when it is red chili peppers used to flavor a stir-fry, delight the sight of connoisseurs and tease greedy devils.

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    Stir-fry: Process for Tanning on the Beach. Roll over...fry...sit-up...fry...apply lotion...fry...repeat

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    Hi Melanie !

    Sling-shot: 1) Goliath was sling-shot (or slanged) 2) The Singapore sling-shot recipe may be found here (and elsewhere, but here is where I found it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Sling ; the non-alcoholic virgin (sic) here: http://www.ehow.com/how_4119_make-virgin-singapore.html

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    Recipe: Instructions for making burnt offerings. Directions like an online dating service where the picture never looks like the outcome.

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    Determination: Constantly trying to put square pegs into round holes

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    But it's all just the way
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    Grit: Pigheaded refusal to give up because it is so much fun not to.

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    Pigheaded: Driving in the direction of a pig.

    Square pegs:
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Square pegs: a snarky slang expression for all women named peggy

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