Urchins
How to identify an urchin
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Is gruel real?
What is gruel?
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How to spell ‘gruel’?
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Charles Dickens
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How do the poor talk?
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Do people really say ‘odds bodkins’?
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Charles Dickens
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A+ Muppet Christmas Carol pics
And I am here for the food.
Light the lamp not the rat light the lamp not the rat!
“It’s even worse for mouses.”
No cheeses for us meeses
Even the vegetables don’t like him.
More of gravy than of grave! What a terrible pun! Leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer!
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I am not surprised that an internet search for “Believable things women say” failed Dickens so spectacularly.
I was thinking there must be a great story between Things women say and Believable things women say. I also feel like there should be one search before that, Can women say things?.
Well, obviously they can’t. Their delicate modesty chokes the words in their throats, should their angelic natures fail to prevent them from forming a substantive thought in the first place. The only reason I am able to respond to this is because I am currently possessed by the Ghost of Mansplainers Past.
What IS a normal number of ghosts?
More than none, but less than six.
wedding dresses: more or less flammable as time passes?
About half of these are also present in Colin Meloy’s searches.
This is everything
So, I know in my heart that someone somewhere has staged a marine life version of Oliver Twist where he is a sea urchin, but I can’t find evidence of it on the internet and, uh, it’s beginning to upset me.
Help? Where is it? Is this truly not the best of all possible worlds??
[Attempts to work the word Panglossian into this comment; finds no good reason to; feels justified shame over the pretentiousness of having wanted to use it in the first place; stands on a windswept cliff during a thunderstorm screaming curses at the cruel liberal arts god that made me this way; dies]
They just haven’t found the right sea-urchin actor for the part. It’s hard to convey Oliver’s innocence and vulnerability when you’re covered with spikes.
Whew. Thank you. I feel better. Also just spent five minutes looking at pictures of sea urchins, which helped a lot.
Honestly my favorite thing about Dickens is that the only reason he would ever google “reasonable surnames” would be to laugh at how bland they all are. Like if you can get away with naming somebody Pumblechook you damn well name them Pumblechook and never look back.
“child labour laws”
“smoking bishop” + recipe
“milk punch” + recipe
what do the poor drink
“gin and lemon punch” + recipe
“dog’s nose” + recipe
what is flip
It is with utmost respect that I say I was shocked to find out this was not Mallory's work.
Grim House
Dour House
Bad House
Nasty House
Appalling House
I snort-laughed out loud at that sequence.
Oh man, I didn’t get this the first time through, and now am venting my shame.
This is the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to me.
I was finishing my annual Bleak House read yesterday, and my edition has photocopies of his draft memo pages, basically his working outline pages. This isn’t very far off: (Tom All Alone’s. Tom All Alone’s and the East Wind. Tom All Alone’s and The House that Got Into Chancery and Never Got Out. Tom All Alone’s and the Chancery Suit).
Those are so bizarre and fascinating, seeing as none of them sound remotely like any of his other novel titles!
I’m about to start my annual Bleak House read! I’m so glad that someone else does that too!
More of gravy than of grave! What a terrible pun! Leave comedy to the bears, Ebenezer!