What Was I Saying...?

Break it down!

-The Gneech, shakin' his groove thing

'Generic Superhero Vixen' by Richard Bartrop
I don't normally get into furry superheroes, but I like the fur effects on this gal.


'The Usual' by Retehi
A nice little slice-of-life image in an appealing toony style. However, the background is a bit surreal -- is this an outdoor cafe, a nightclub, or Two-Face's hideout?

-The Gneech

...another Get Smart trailer?

-The Gneech

PS: Courtesy of gamera_spinning.

For your present, here's today's Forgotten English (© Jeffrey Kacirk):

superchery
Deceit; cheating; an old word of French origin.

--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850

Foul play; an injurie, wrong, affront, bravado.

--Randle Cotgrave's Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, 1611

Corn Harvest
On this date in 1854, American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, serving as American consul to England, jotted in his journal: "There came into my office a few days ago a man of about fifty, short and square, with a foreign look and tongue, rather shrewdly dressed, and with a forward demeanor. He announced himself as an 'eradicator of corns,' and produced two thick quarto volumes of testimonials from innumerable persons, among whom were many distinguished Americans. Many of these were fortified with the wax-seals as well as signatures of the writers. He wished to know if I myself had any corns for him to operate upon. ... A bold, showy, gentlemanly, vulgar humbug -- a man whom I think I have heard of in America, who takes out any number of corns at half a dollar apiece, and never failed to find an abundant harvest. His two books of testimonials would doubtless be valuable to autograph collectors."

Aren't "gentlemanly" and "vulgar" contradictory?

-The Gneech

In between episodes of The Muppet Show (Second Season), I did a workout!

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Now -- on to the John Cleese episode!

-The Gneech