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William Keckler marvels: "I tried to find a picture of a lime in lime light. And I couldn't find a single photograph of this. I felt like asking Google for a divorce. All I wanted was to see a lime in a perfectly matching lime light, a lime camouflaged in lime light." Ladies and gentlemen, we present an Internet first: an actual lime in limelight.
June writes: Lovin' you in the liminal zone!
QAII writes: So it's true. You ARE the light of my life!!!!!
AskAndYeShallReceive writes: You are a philosopher, a gentleman and a spectacle. I can only achieve the last one. Thank You, My Friend!
Prof. Oddfellow writes: Woohoo! Thank you -- I'm glowing!
Catherine writes: You are truly amazing my friend - a living legend - I'm green with envy at your genius ;~/
Prof. Oddfellow writes: I'm blushing, Kate! (I do realize you'll have to take my word for it!)
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Imagine a game of "What's My Line," in which either a cherub or an imp whispers into a blindfolded panelist's ear.
Are the whispered words pictured on the right of an angelic or a diabolical nature?
Answer: Angelic. "Turn—yet turn and live!" —Andrew Cleaves, "Chapters on Churchyards," in The Living Age, Vol. VII, Dec. 1845, p. 362. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the puzzle image below to reveal one possible solution.
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~ Classic Sightings ~
Portrait from Memoir of Rachel Hicks.
Note that the Rachel Hicks appears more jovial in spectral form.
To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.
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 “Your boat waits, and I have the honor to bid you good-evening.” —Molly Seawell
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We understand this is the first and last time Hollywood extras were acknowledged in a film's opening credit sequence. The film is the stunning noir masterpiece The Shanghai Gesture: |
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"The parentheticals are where the answers lie." — Geof Huth
"Closed Parentheses" by theilr.
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~ Classic Sightings ~ 
Portrait from The Life of Sir Walter Scott.
“His face was grim in the ghostly blue light.” —P. J. Parrish
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Here's one of Nabokov's methods for a secret code. Note the charming detail that " one-letter words remain undisguised": For their correspondence in the first period of separation, Van and Ada had invented a code ... One-letter words remained undisguised. In any longer word each letter was replaced by the one succeeding it in the alphabet at such an ordinal point–second, third, fourth, and so forth–which corresponded to the number of letters in that word. Thus "love", a four-letter word, became "pszi" ("p" being the fourth letter after "l" in the alphabetic series, "s" the fourth after "o" et cetera), whilst, say, "lovely" (in which the longer stretch made it necessary, in two instances, to resume the alphabet after exhausting it) became "ruBkrE", where the letters overflowing into the new alphabetic series were capitalized. —V. Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family ChronicleVia Gretel und Hänsel |
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From our former outpost at Twitter:
Why do we praise people for making a "difference" when they're actually making a "sum"?
I think it's a product of the times.
June adds:
It just doesn't add up.
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