word thoughts from tired brain

[magid]

so to make devilled eggs (that would be "stuffed eggs" for any brits), take ouy the yolk, mush w/ mayo & mustard (latter optional), put back in the egg, paprika over the top.
so to make devil(led) dogs... take out the insides, mix w/ condiments....

to treat may mean to negotiate a treaty or other agreement, or pay for someone else's tab.
so why does to retreat not mean to do these things a 2nd time?

(and there was one more that came as i lay in bed last night. but now it's gone away. and i bet a bunch of people give a sigh of relief... :-)

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[prog.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fore some reason, earlier today I was thinking of the book reports I did c. 6th grade, which followed a structure set by a set of questions or challenges we had to apply to the book. The last was "Rewrite the ending of the story." It wasn't until many years later that I realized it meant "Think of a different ending." I interpreted it as "Copy the last few paragraphs from the book into your report." Shrug? I did as I was told, not quite seeing the point to it, but always getting an A anyway.

(It also makes me now realize that it assumed that the book was fiction, which must have posed a different sort of problem to all the other boys in my class, who always did reports on biographies of their favorite sports heroes.)