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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Mess’ used to denote an amount of food is uncommon and ‘mass’ makes as much sense. 1000+ ghits:
The issue, indeed, is not whether the political scientist can have his cake and eat it too, but whether he shall trade his cake for a mass of pottage.
books.google.com/books?isbn=0472068229
If you vote, you will be selling your own birthright, and your future, for a mass of pottage;
www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/or/or84-6.html
... last night we witnessed a Biblical reenactment, when foolish sheep– like foolish Esau— sold our birthright for a mass of pottage. ...
patriotsandliberty.com/?p=3073
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Wow, great minds! Kudos, Ken (if I may) for that amazing mass of discoveries you made, or submitted at least, in such a short time in 2005, including mass of pottage. The mind truly boggles. Great reading. I should not have been so easily satisfied with the discovery of Peter’s post, to which I tacked my own observations.
I do like ‘klakritz’, however. All the names, or e-nonyms I guess, of the participants in this forum have their own resonance now.
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