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Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening: a Practical and Scientific Encyclopoedia of Horticulture for Gardeners and Botanists, by colleen
Panvocalics, by mollusque
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"Cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education."
Mark Twain
HA HA HA!!!
Art thou mad, said Friar John, to run on at this rate? Help, here, in the name of five hundred thousand millions of cartloads of devils, help! may a shanker gnaw thy moustachios, and the three rows of pock-royals and cauliflowers cover thy bum and turd-barrel instead of breeches and codpiece. Codsooks, our ship is almost overset.
- Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk 4, ch. XXI, tr. Le Motteux
“I was leaping off the rope, and Yukon Eric, who had a cauliflower ear, moved at the last second,” Kowalski told The Chicago Tribune in 1989. “I thought I missed, but all of a sudden, something went rolling across the ring. It was his ear.”
The New York Times, Killer Kowalski, Wrestler, Dies at 81, by Richard Goldstein, August 31, 2008
Interesting site, ptero!
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