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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This eggcornish variant improves a little on its acorn, representing us as, perhaps, a few tantalising crumbs carelessly crushed between the frantic molars of time:
. Women may be mind readers but us mere morsels are not.
Please tell us mere morsels what it is like to be perfect?
I think it takes us mere morsels years to develop such good dress sense! .
we salute you for your time and effort in making this site so easy for us mere morsels who are just setting off on the path to some great music …
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Another classic. If we are merely morsels, at least let us be juicy.
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My dad’s favorite quote from Shakespeare: “What foods these morsels be.†(Advertent, of course. But some using it advertently does not mean others cannot use it to make Corned —or is it Cornish— Eggs.)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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