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(Featuring special guest stars Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Plus typos.)
(Featuring special guest stars Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, and Benedict Cumberbatch. Plus typos.)
Every turnip green! Every kidney bean!
Every turnip green! Every kidney bean!
Good gosh!
Have a kumquat, have two! “
Good gosh!
I’m guessing it all goes back to the meanest thing my grandmother could ever say about someone:
“Poor dear—she can’t keep help.”
Kristi Noem reportedly fired a Coast Guard pilot for failing to move a blanket of Noem's from one plane to another amid mechanical difficulties.
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I’m guessing it all goes back to the meanest thing my grandmother could ever say about someone:
“Poor dear—she can’t keep help.”
"Plenty of Pennsylvania," from cult favorite* Plain and Fancy, which also gives a shoutout (it rolls from a to z) to, among others, iceberg lettuce and zucchini.
And xplant.
*I like it.
"Plenty of Pennsylvania," from cult favorite* Plain and Fancy, which also gives a shoutout (it rolls from a to z) to, among others, iceberg lettuce and zucchini.
And xplant.
*I like it.
and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut
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I can think of two musical theater songs that mention edible plants whose names begin with k.
Name the plants, the songs, the shows, and provide a little lyrical evidence, because I don't know everything.
Maybe there are more than two.
Go.
I can think of two musical theater songs that mention edible plants whose names begin with k.
Name the plants, the songs, the shows, and provide a little lyrical evidence, because I don't know everything.
Maybe there are more than two.
Go.
Also: I can't operate on this patient. He's my son!
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
Kent Smith and Ethel Barrymore, both of them looking rather exuberantly retouched, to be honest, in An International Incident (1940)
Kent Smith and Ethel Barrymore, both of them looking rather exuberantly retouched, to be honest, in An International Incident (1940)
[photo by Martha Swope]
[photo by Martha Swope]