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kinsale42

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Cats. Likes Hanzo (no I will not switch). Neurodivergent. Proud Union Electrician, occasional writer. PNW. Over 40. 🏳️‍🌈 Profile pic by x.com/Honey74095689

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albnelson , to bookstodon group
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Besides Shakespeare, were you assigned more than one book by the same author in school? K-12, not college. @bookstodon

kinsale42 ,
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@albnelson @bookstodon Steinbeck. Did The Red Pony and Cannery Row as well as Of Mice And Men.

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@albnelson @peachfront @bookstodon I think I read extra Willa Cather

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BANG UP. (WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BANG UP. (WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up cove; a dashing fellow who spends his money freely. To bang up prime: to bring your horses up in a dashing or fine style. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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    • kinsale42 ,
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons sounds like something Arthur Hastings would say

    kinsale42 ,
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons or Bertie Wooster

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    LAMB'S WOOL. Apples roasted and put into strong ale.

    A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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    kinsale42 ,
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    @TheVulgarTongue @histodons I would try this

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