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I just now Googled "zaftig" ... That reminds me of my favorite "z" word: "Zarf". It's an ornamental metal holder used to hold coffee cups with no handle. Some may recognize the more ubiquitous, modern version, the "card zarf": http://1000words1000days.com/wp-...

I imagine that the off-centered thing might be because that person finds the angle it allows easier on their fingers.

One reason you might want to center it instead is to make it easier for you to control your embouchure.

Different strokes, I guess.

Nanohedron wrote:So I'll take that as a rhetorical question.

Trying to make sense of the monkey vis-a-vis television. By way of Community.

Nanohedron wrote:So isn't anyone going to ask? Aren't you? Aren't you? Aren't you?

So, Nano... uh ... have you seen Annie's Boobs lately?

Nanohedron wrote:"O me smartphone's a cracker...

Nanohedron wrote:N txt each othr 4 R cnvrsation.

Fav line evs, Nno. Gd job.

mutepointe wrote:...Even folks who should know what this word means...

For example, recidivists?

I like Lugubrious.

I do so love time-lapse.

By this point, the Perfessor would have built a new TV out of coconuts and Ginger and Mary Ann would be arguing about who to vote for on Samoan Idol.

It's like slashdot, but for everything.

I can't describe Tumblr either.

Nanohedron wrote:

fearfaoin wrote:I've been to Bogus. It was ... not as advertised.

IOW it was the real deal? I confess you've left me a bit confused, as you might understand.

Oh, darn. That was an angle that I had not considered.

Seriously, when they started running Frazz in our newspaper, my wife said, "Who would have guessed that Calvin grows up to be a janitor at a high school?"

Nanohedron wrote:... lyrically heroic Greek names and places like Stegosaurus, Icicles, Apron, Trachea, Salami, Peon, Hippies, Rebates, Lampoon, Demeanor, Bogus, Broadax, Canapes, and Expander.

I've been to Bogus. It was ... not as advertised.

An' a right bonny holiday she is, too.

May yer swashes always be well buckled,
May yer victims drop weapons in fright
May ye ne'er have to swab off the poop deck,
An' may yer sky only be red at night!

MTGuru wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuEgd4azU6Q

More cowbell!