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The Goonies was on this weekend. Seems like a good time for this...

Wednesday’s Word

Word: Lumper’s helper (characterization)

Usage:

Since a lumper does absolutely mindless stevedore work, a lumper’s helper would hardly be a fountainhead of erudition. In fact, he’d probably be number than a pounded thumb: “wouldn’t know enough to pour water out of a boot - with the directions stamped on the heel.”

A lumper’s helper might be number’n a hake, but since he does accomplish something in the way of physical labor, he is a cut above a zero.

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know that B&M Baked Beans were first sold in 1927? Produced by the Burnham & Morrill Company in Portland, ME, this product took nearly seven years of testing before B&M Brick Oven Baked Beans hit the store shelves. They continue to be made in Portland.

The Burham & Morrill Company has been in business since 1867.

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Wednesday’s Word

Word: Glom (Adj. or V.) (spelled ‘cruise’)

Definition: to grasp

Usage:

“Get your great. glomming paws out of that peanut butter fudge. Your sister might want a dite, you know.”

Or:

“When Edwin saw those brand new work gloves going for fifty cents at the auction, he glommed right onto the whole lot of them. Nobody else got a single pair.”

(Definition from: “How To Talk Yankee”, by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)

Did You Know Tuesday

Did you know that our Sun will run out of fuel in about 5 billion years? When that happens, the outer layers of the Sun will expand (far enough out to turn the Earth into a barren, lifeless rock) and will then collapse on itself.

Currently, the Sun turns hyrdogen into helium at a rate of about five million tons per second. Holy moly! Eventually, though, like all stars, our life-providing star will run out of fuel. Prior to that happening, however, changes in the Sun’s output will make life on Earth more difficult. In about a million and a half years, the energy output from the Sun will increase by 10%. That may not seem like a lot, but the Earth will have difficulty keeping this extra energy out and life on Earth will be affected.

Read more about this here, if you dare.

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