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@ReaderJohn I just waved goodbye to more of my local bookstore gift certificate that I got for Christmas – that looks intriguing!
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@dwalbert 😹 👀 I thank God I’m Not From Around Here and therefore never got saddled with a country nickname, though I do always enjoy meeting some huge grizzled guy and finding out that everyone calls him ‘Peanut.’
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@Miraz I think the hard part about them, for some of the people I know, is that sometimes they can be embarrassing; but the rule is (as far as I can determine it), that someone else gives it to you, people usually get them when they are very young, and they are often ironic (e.g. calling a big kid “Tiny”). Oh, and you have them for life, and beyond. They appear in obituaries and sometimes even on tombstones.
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@JohnBrady Also a fan here! “White Lily” is a particular favorite for me, can’t remember which album that’s from. I love hearing it with headphones.
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@Miraz Excellent point! I guess since they’re Brits someone could be called “Biscuit”… if it was a “Biscuit” in the U.S. South it wouldn’t be the same as a “Cookie” but there has got to be a “Biscuit” around somewhere… now I keep thinking of country nicknames… Peanut, Stumpy, Tank, Dawg, Turtle, Mudcat, Scooter, Little Bob, Cricket… of course Sissy and Bubba…
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@Miraz if one of the Catherines was known as “Tootie” and the other as “Cookie” this would all be solved.
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@bapsi 😸
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@lmika Ah, okay. We have white ibises and then glossy ibises, which look black from a distance but like so many dark-colored birds, are actually a rainbow of dark iridescent colors. And, when I see you on the timeline, I always think of your beautiful birds. I hope they are well.
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@annahavron I like the idea of a “reading” page…
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@patrickrhone re your reading list, my mother was just raving to me yesterday about how great “James” is. She read it via her new book club.
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@lmika 😻Very cool to see a tuxedo ibis! North American ibises have to commit to a monochrome color scheme, AFAIK.
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@aemiliana I’m impressed that you know people who return books. (I’ve got about five right now that, ummmm, belong to other people.)
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@jean 😻 stunning!!!!!!
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@ChrisJWilson That parable has haunted people (and rightly so) for two thousand years. I wonder the same about myself. (Actually, I know the same, about myself, on several occasions.)
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@lzbth Oh, that looks so peaceful and refreshing!
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