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Some short, but pithy items (the lockdown version)…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: crunchy, ovate, shrieval, tussocky, soboliferous, iracund, and foppish. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Short, but pithy items eh? Well, what with this current self-isolation, and that all the cafés have shut down, my observations of … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, arts, brain, cafe, composition, conversation, cool, Dulltown, existentialism, Grumpiness, Hull.UK., humour, information, learning, music, observations, overheard, people, puzzle, science, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, thinking, words, writing
Tagged a smell?, adolescent baby?, arts, bald patch, bookbag, brogues, children, closed cafe, conversation, crunchy, dictionary word, foppish., freshly sharpened pencils, iracund, late, madness, meat to your right, name change, observations, ovate, pork chops, Qualms, self-isolating, serendipity, shrieval, soboliferous, spam, style, surrealism, teenagers, tussocky, tweed jacket, weather, words, writing
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Mayonnaise in the dark…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected colours are: Austrian amber, Polish pink, Finnish fawn, Venezuelan violet, Madagascan mauve, Romanian russet, Turkish turquoise, and French Polish. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> We are now all in, what seems to be called, ‘UK lockdown’. Every … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, adjectives, arts, brain, colours, composition, conversation, cool, creation, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, Hull.UK., humour, information, instruction, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, style, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged a bag of manure, art, arts, Austrian amber, celebrities, colour, conversation, dictionary word, exercise hour, Finnish fawn, French Polish., instruction, Madagascan mauve, madness, poetry, Polish pink, Romanian russet, serendipity, style, surrealism, the glory days, The Hull Surrealist League, Tony Mayonnaise, Turkish turquoise, UK lockdown, Venezuelan violet, victorian actor voice, words, writing
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Ah, more of those Crush names!…
But first… Dulltown. UK: Today’s lovely fish names are: the Crevice Kelpfish, the Eelpout, the Antenna Codlet, the Flabby Whalefish, the Hamlet, the Bamboo Shark, and the Merluccid Hake. If you needed to have a fish avatar, which of these … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, arts, books, brain, celebrities, creation, Dulltown, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, puzzle, reading, style, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged arts, celebrities, heir, history, interesting fish names, Monty Tick, multimillion dollar fortune, New York, plush apartment, serendipity, style, surrealism, the antenna codlet, the Bamboo Shark, the Crevice Kelpfish, the Eelpout, the Flabby Whalefish, the glory days, the Hamlet, The Hull Surrealist League, the Merluccid Hake., Uncle Steth, Veronica Crush, words, writing
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: araeostyle, wampish, prad, spink, greenockite, nawab, and embrangle. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning – as the … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, arts, brain, cafe, celebrities, composition, cool, creation, dreaming, existentialism, humour, information, learning, misheard, music, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, words
Tagged araeostyle, art, arts, cafes closed, celebrities, compstick, dictionary word, embrangle, greenockite, jumptown, madness, MHSLs, misheard, misheard song lyrics, music, nawab, poetry, possum, prad, Professor Mouldie, self-isolation, serendipity, sex, spink, style, surrealism, video link, wampish, words, writing
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Gomez grasped a heavy idol to hurl…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s octopus is the one running out of the art gallery being chased by an angry attendant after touching eight of the paintings simultaneously. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems ages, dear reader, since I have shown you something … Continue reading
Posted in academia, archeology, art, arts, books, design, drama, drawing, expletives, history, humour, information, people, puzzle, reading, serendipity, story, style, words, writing
Tagged 1956, art, arts, bad guys, Britishers, bulbous orbiter, Caramba!, chums, coffee table, dictionary word, drawing, expletives, film, foreigners, history, idol, imperialism, jeep, Lion Annual 1956, old-style illustration, orbiter, serendipity, spaceships, stereotype villains, style, today's octopus, words, writing
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So, what is it that those TV ads are trying to tell us?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like Mount Vesuvius – it does sit very nicely on one’s desk, and all the messy shavings are collected in the base. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sign up now for twenty … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, adjectives, advertising, brain, composition, dreaming, existentialism, food, humour, information, instruction, money, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, TV, words, writing
Tagged advertising, arts, bliss, blood when you brush, boost, existential angst, flaky cod, hand-held, instruction, madness, make her day!, McDonalds, mini-melters, Mount Vesuvius, ordinary, pain and fever, poetry, Ribena, serendipity, sex, shavings in the base, shiny hair, style, surrealism, TV, TV advertising, unusual pencil sharpener, words, writing
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