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SteveMR200
2013-06-09 18:00:00 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5

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Steve
David C Kifer
2013-06-10 20:28:03 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
He forgot privacy and property!
:-)>


Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And East is East and West is
West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than
rhubarb does. Now, uh...now you tell me what you know.
--Groucho Marx, _Animal Crackers_
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Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
SteveMR200
2014-09-15 00:35:00 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
Langdon switched slides to a close-up of the
Michelino painting, wherein a winged angel sat on
a throne at the foot of Mount Purgatory. At the
angel's feet, a line of penitent sinners awaited
admittance to the upward path. Strangely, the angel
was wielding a long sword, the point of which he
seemed to be stabbing into the face of the first
person in line.

"Who knows," Langdon called out, "what this angel is doing?"

"Stabbing someone in the head?" a voice ventured.

"Nope."

Another voice. "Stabbing someone in the eye?"

Langdon shook his head. "Anyone else?"

A voice way in the back spoke firmly. "Writing on
his forehead."

Langdon smiled. "It appears someone back there
knows his Dante." He motioned again to the painting.
"I realize it looks like the angel is stabbing this
poor fellow in the forehead, but he is not. According
to Dante's text, the angel who guards purgatory uses
the tip of his sword to write something on his
visitors' foreheads before they enter. 'And what
does he write?' you ask."

Langdon paused for effect. "Strangely, he writes a
single letter . . . which is repeated seven times.
Does anyone know what letter the angel writes seven
times on Dante's forehead?"

"P!" shouted a voice in the crowd.

Langdon smiled. "Yes. The letter P. This P
signifies 'peccatum'--the latin word for 'sin.' And
the fact that it is written seven times is symbolic
of the Septem Peccata Mortalia, also known as--"

"The Seven Deadly Sins!" someone else shouted.

"Bingo. And so, only by ascending through each
level of purgatory can you atone for your sins.
With each new level that you ascend, an angel
cleanses one of the Ps from your forehead until you
reach the top, arriving with your brow cleansed of
the seven Ps . . . and your soul purged of all sin."

He winked. "The place is called purgatory for a reason."

--Dan Brown (1964- )
_Inferno_ [2013], Chapter 57

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Steve
SteveMR200
2014-12-15 13:38:00 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is
not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of
personal pronouns, nor perennial pronouncement. It
is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought,
nor a promise proposed.
--U.S. President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
(In Ross and Kathryn Petras'
_The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said_ [1993],
"On Alliteration, Excessive")

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Steve
SteveMR200
2017-09-05 01:30:00 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is
not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of
personal pronouns, nor perennial pronouncement. It
is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought,
nor a promise proposed.
--U.S. President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
(In Ross and Kathryn Petras'
_The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said_ [1993],
"On Alliteration, Excessive")
[Peter Piper's parents reviewing his report card
filled with "F" grades:]

Father:
You didn't pass pepper picking? Probably
preoccupied with partying!

Mother:
Or perhaps pot-puffing peer pressure put you in
this predicament?

Narration:
Peter Piper's poor pupillary performance predictably
put his preferred pastimes in peril.

--Scott Hilburn
_Argyle Sweater_ [September 4, 2017] (comic strip)

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Steve
SteveMR200
2018-08-20 17:15:00 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is
not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of
personal pronouns, nor perennial pronouncement. It
is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought,
nor a promise proposed.
--U.S. President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
(In Ross and Kathryn Petras'
_The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said_ [1993],
"On Alliteration, Excessive")
[Peter Piper's parents reviewing his report card
filled with "F" grades:]
You didn't pass pepper picking? Probably
preoccupied with partying!
Or perhaps pot-puffing peer pressure put you in
this predicament?
Peter Piper's poor pupillary performance predictably
put his preferred pastimes in peril.
--Scott Hilburn
_Argyle Sweater_ [September 4, 2017] (comic strip)
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tas/2017/tas170904.gif
Priests, pastors and pain; three words that shouldn't
share the same sentence.
--Max Lucado (1955- )
_FoxNews.Com_ [August 18, 2018],
"Max Lucado: Priests, Pastors And Pain--Three
Words That Shouldn't Share The Same Sentence"

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/18/max-lucado-priests-pastors-and-pain-three-words-that-shouldnt-share-same-sentence.html

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Steve
SteveMR200
2018-10-09 15:25:00 UTC
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"You don't know these people. These people are out
to change the world, with them higher at the top of
the heap than anyone has ever been or dreamed of
being. With so much at risk--everything!--they'll
pop me, plant me, and piss on my grave."

Spittle flew with each plosive.

--"Randall Larkin"
(A character in Dean Koontz's
_The Whispering Room_ [2017]; Part 2, Chapter 15)

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Steve
SteveMR200
2019-07-06 11:55:01 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is
not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of
personal pronouns, nor perennial pronouncement. It
is not the perturbation of a people passion-wrought,
nor a promise proposed.
--U.S. President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
(In Ross and Kathryn Petras'
_The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said_ [1993],
"On Alliteration, Excessive")
[Peter Piper's parents reviewing his report card
filled with "F" grades:]
You didn't pass pepper picking? Probably
preoccupied with partying!
Or perhaps pot-puffing peer pressure put you in
this predicament?
Peter Piper's poor pupillary performance predictably
put his preferred pastimes in peril.
--Scott Hilburn
_Argyle Sweater_ [September 4, 2017] (comic strip)
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tas/2017/tas170904.gif
The pessimist preaches limitations, liabilities and losses.
The optimist promotes progress, prosperity and plenty.
--William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
_Thoughts Of A Christian Optimist_ [1968]

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Steve
SteveMR200
2019-09-25 12:25:57 UTC
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The optimist promotes progress, prosperity and plenty.
--William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
_Thoughts Of A Christian Optimist_ [1968]
Four steps to achievement:

1. Plan purposefully.
2. Prepare prayerfully.
3. Proceed positively.
4. Pursue persistently.

--William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
_Thoughts Of A Christian Optimist_ [1968]

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Steve
SteveMR200
2020-09-01 15:30:06 UTC
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Remember, only the 3 P's--pee, poo, and
(toilet) paper--belong in the toilet.
--Guidelines to Prevent Sewer Backup

https://www.lacsd.org/services/wastewatersewage/preventing_sewer_backups/guidelines_to_prevent_sewer_backups.asp

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Steve

SteveMR200
2017-12-14 12:45:00 UTC
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Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very
good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
_Little Dorrit_ [1857-1858]; Book II, Chapter 5
Here's three more P-words for your collection, Charlie:

GOP: The Grand Old Party of predators, perverts, pedophiles.
--Milt Priggee (1953- )
(In his political cartoon; December 11, 2017)

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Steve
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