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Social Distancing

Six feet between us

Consider six feet under

It’s a no brainer


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Obscure words explained 104 – blarney

BLARNEY

Deceptive speaking

Irish call it eloquence

The gift of the gab


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Obscure words explained 98. – proxemics

PROXEMICS

Study of space needs

of humans and animals

and social effects


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Obscure words explained 97. domicile

DOMICILE

Home, it’s my castle

Although I am not a king

The place where I live

 


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Unusual USA place names 5. – Quamba

QUAMBA, Kanabec County Minnesota

formerly Mud Creek

changed to an Ojibway word

Quamba  means mud hole


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Unusual USA place names 4. – Koo Chi Ching

KOO CHI CHING, Koo Chi Ching County, Minnesota

Sounds Chinese some say

but these are Ojibway words

The place of inlets

Note: The inlets being on Rainy lake and the Rainy River


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Just joking1.

I went into bar the other day and asked the bar-tender for a double. He went in the back room behind the bar and came back with a guy who looked just like me.