Some stiffish people think that smoking jointsNot just sinful, but illegal in some jurisdictions, any day of the week.
Are carnal sins 'twixt Saturday and Monday.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, December 26, 2005
Unintended Meaning
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) could hardly have anticipated the changes in the English language that give a new meaning to these lines from his poem An Open Question: