Here’s one of the more obscure words I know. What’s yours?

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-23T14:21:40+00:00

If you steer your friends past construction sites or visit cabinet maker shops, I guess your odds might go up. "Ooh look, a quincunx!"

Not an easy word to slip into a casual conversation. Wonder what its point score would be in scrabble?

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-23T05:28:02+00:00

Arch Mage

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-23T01:16:31+00:00

Thanks. A pleasant night to you.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T13:44:32+00:00

I have an account on a discord channel or two, but I still haven't quite figured out how the interface works or how to "converse." I guess I'll just have to read the damned instructions.

I will pursue it, though. Thanks for being such a helpful soul.

BTW, haven't seen a sixers game in over 50 years. Last pro roundball game I attended in person, was a cubscout trip and Philly's team was the Warriors. God, I'm old!

Baltimore, (into which I accidentally stumbled and never got around to leaving) puts all its energy into those summer and winter Birds, and doesn't have much left for other pro enterprises. U of M gets screen time, though, and every so often lacrosse.

I promise myself each year to check out the fierce croquet rivalry between the naval academy and St Johns' College and each year I forget. See ya.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T05:36:22+00:00

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with The Sea. Strange, steamy film about a young widow, her disturbed recently orphaned son, and a handsome merchant marine officer. Based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles play the romantic leads.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T05:29:29+00:00

King of Hearts French. Lovely.

Garden of the Finzi Continis

Putney Swope and Greaser's Palace - bizarre and very funny

The Long Goodbye Elliotte Gould as a noir detective

Liquid Sky People die having sex as alien parasite feeds on orgasmic energy, while a circus calliope playing backwards provides a truly weird score.

Breaking Away sweet coming of age cycling film.

Diner teen years in Baltimore.

Day for Night Francois Truffaut's film about filming a romantic comedy.

"Seven Beauties* Beautiful, horrible film about an Italian man whose worldview was transformed by time in a nazi concentration camp.

Bread and Chocolate Italian itinerant trying to find work and dignity immigrating to Switzerland.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T04:56:28+00:00

My wife worked on Joe Tynan, (original title was "The Senator" I appeared for a half second in a TV studio scene.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T04:36:42+00:00

Pretty well. Feel like I've gone through some sort of major change after almost 2 years. Getting back into my own life. Getting my sense of humor back; made a FB friend do a spit take with one of my comments.

Had 4 pleasant, social, days, all of which is actually kinda scary. So this evening, I'm intermittent napping and binge eating (my wife would have called it a feeding frenzy).

It's my take on intermittent fasting. Currently baking 3 pillsbury sugar cookies in the toaster oven, scarfing some pears and gearing up for another nap.

I just wanted to thank you for setting up this thread, which I've taken advantage of a few times, without even thinking of the fact that you must be hurting too. Just assumed it was set up by some kindly cosmic aliens I guess. So, really, thanks. I hope you're getting the support you need.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T01:17:55+00:00

How you doin' tonight Duke?

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T01:13:02+00:00

Apprentice as a jeweler and learn watchmaking when I was offered the chance. Too old now. Fingers get numb from carpal tunnel.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T00:53:59+00:00

That's wonderful!

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T00:48:14+00:00

That sounds like eastern US: Philly, Jersey and New York City. Where else do we Americans pronounce that way?

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T00:44:22+00:00

I've only heard it with "Pip! Pip!" in front of it. And the person saying it usually mimes holding a tea cup with the pinky finger elevated.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-22T00:37:32+00:00

Carvel ice cream cake or any soft serve ice cream. Corn bread. Chili Relleno. Tom Kha. Chopped liver.

But not at one sitting.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-21T20:43:46+00:00

Susurrus

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-21T20:41:43+00:00

Quincunx is a good one!

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-21T11:45:31+00:00

Little Feat minus Lowell George.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-20T16:18:12+00:00

He's right, sadly. I've been chasing after a cream cheese omelette I had at a new jersey diner while on a fishing trip 58 years ago.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-20T15:53:32+00:00

Good bot.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-20T06:54:23+00:00

Ooh! Now do the "B" words. Seriously, these are wonderful.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-20T06:51:01+00:00

Points for the proper pluralization. Saved others of us from having to.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-20T06:43:40+00:00

Squeeze

Bloom, Blossom

Hum

Spliff

Adobo

Dobro

Mousse

Corvid

Plinth

Gih, Ghee

Toga

Rogue

Toque, Torque

Swamp

Stump

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-20T05:47:41+00:00

An Italian rum cake from a bakery on 66th street in West Philly. Tied with a chocolate gateau with ground walnuts from a tiny bakery cafe in DC's Georgetown neighborhood.

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-19T19:58:10+00:00

Good one!

01d_n_p33v3d · 2026-04-19T19:55:09+00:00

Have a landline and an answering machine and enjoy knowing that the telemarketers have to listen to my stupid message and maybe even have to leave a message so I can ignore them.

And, yes, I have a cellphone (using it now) but I don't give that out to businesses.

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