Mixed Grill VIII

I just looked at the schedule of future posts and realized that I hadn't offered a mixed grill since April. Sorry about that, whether you are or not. Anyway here's a new salmagundi for you to taste, chew on, or spit out. Or some combination.

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Bite the pullet – You may not like poultry but don't forget the hosts are your spouse's family.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

Fire – The forest primeval

Keep the home fires burning – British policy exemplified by Dresden in WWII following the blitz in London

Content – Inexpensive solitary confinement

Oklahomophobe – Tulsan fundamentalist

Hand of fate – Aces over eights

Don't believe anyone who says “No pun intended.”

Knowledge is power – The Mets need more knowledge

Transcontinental – Dance for the dysphoric

Victoria's Secret – Wouldn't you like to … ? No?

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal (Oscar Wilde)

Bikini Line – Rockettes at the beach

Take the fifth – Get soused

The Simple One – PC book by Dostoevsky. Family Edition approved by Dr. Bowdler.

Priest – Confessional professional. See also: economist, Sigmund Freud, and MLB official (sorry if you can't figure those out)

Squid pro Quo – Japanese delicacy. Recipe named after its patron, Status Quo, who paid the chef to devise it

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know (W. H. Auden)

Star Dreck – Derivative science fiction series. Terrible

Drought-stricken regions – These are the climes that dry one's soul

Remembrance of Things Past – J. Fred Muggs, Kuda Bux, Oliver J. Dragon, New York's Window on the World

Pulp Fiction – Faux British band of the 1990s.

Friends with privileges – Bed and breakfast

Mark my words! – Spelling test

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do (Isaac Asimov)

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I'll relieve your agony and stop here.

For now.




October 12, 2016