Wordwizard

Appalachian is another one of those.
And being one of those, we used to have PEEKin buns.

Wait!
Carrie Fisher starred in Star Wars!?
Star Wars is a film-series!?

Also, as Shelly has pointed-out, the use of a comma can add clarity.
If you insert a comma into a., " They were being disrespectful, talking loudly, and using bad language.", then in the list each behavior stands alone.

Nobody loves me but my Mother, and she could be jivin' too.
Lyrics, and how we hear them, can be funny.
Only recently have I stopped wondering who the hell "Leslie" is in the song "Groovin'".

Hi Shelly
I'd have thought she'd have mattressed Inna Gadda Da Vida after the thousandth playing, too....

My wonderful Mom hid our LP of Hair between her box-spring and mattress.

ah, yes...the little used punctuation mark

No
depends on context, timing, and tone

I only have answers for you

...a felicitous turn of events that your vacuum works again. One of the highlights of my day included the Shark (vacuum) which my wife decided needed to be run on the first-floor. I jumped up from the other highlight of my day, reading Unoffendable by Brant Hansen, to move every obstacle from her va...

tony h wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:22 pm

An impresive skill.

The ascetic's aesthetic's coped-joint's copacetic.

For anyone who has installed trim or done finish-work in interior woodworking(wdwrkng), this word will resonate with rich meaning: when you cope an inside-corner-joint, and it fits snugly, looking for all the world like a miter, it is "copacetic", for sure. The aesthete's aesthetic's proven when his...

Looks like a GREAT neighborhood. I look forward to seeing a picture of the leaves. Our American Sycamore, when quartersawn, yields flashiness not as flashy as "lacewood"(Roopola Brasillensis), but flashier than your beechwood(Fagus sylvatica), which is/was used a lot as a secondary-wood in drawers a...

scaffold
scaffolding
3 bucks-high

I assumed that it was Bob's work.
Certainly the tree is in captivity within that gated-wall.
The structure - but not the bark - reminds me of a sycamore. Are they called plane trees over there?

...nor does either have anything to do with chrome.