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November 29, 2019
Happy Scrapping, Fellow Leftovers,

In response to entreaties from all over the damn place, Flossophy Friday is going to come through for the people and provide wonderful alternatives to the crass commercial “Black Friday” offerings now clogging the motorways, neurons, cables, and File Transfer Protocols everywhere else. Peruse the wonderful possibilities for your purchasing pleasure!

And to make your life even more interesting, we are now accepting barter. Don’t be shy. We’re all nihilists here. (Nothing over seventeen tons, please!)

Special Thingamajigs Tangentially Attuned to the Zeitgeist:
  1. A keychain with a bunch of keys already on it
  2. A solid month (or two) of free advice, depending how much you need (trust us, we’ll know)
  3. A Rambler Metropolitan, full scale model, some assembly required
  4. Two thousand dozen eggs, still in the shell
  5. Eleven emphatically original works of art, mixed media
  6. A Boeing 737 Max
  7. A used horrible U.S. president
  8. The Unabridged History of Carbuncles, Vols. III-IX (I and II sold out!)
  9. A fresh litter of possums
  10. A pouch to put ‘em in
  11. A map to a secret location (if we told you it wouldn’t be secret, would it?)
  12. Marbles, in case you lost some or all
  13. A Pound of Sound (staff’s new rap concept!)
  14. A Brodie knob, thanks to Procurement Manager of the Week
    Tom Kelley:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_knob

And in a fit of pique, we hereby exercise executive privilege (so what, is Congress gonna stop us?) to rename Black Friday because. Just because. Because we said so, that’s why. The thing is, we’re not sure what to name it. Orange Friday? Why can’t it be Saturday Friday? And Whatsyourproblem Friday has a nice ring. Staff is working on it. Theoretically. (Send in suggestions to win a free box of feathers!)
Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Buyagra (bi agg rah) Noun: a steroid to magnify your shopping lust
In a sentence:  Sue Cheff spiked the turkey with buyagra and everyone at the table ended up with twenty litters of possums and a Boeing 737 Max to put 'em in.

Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
“Houses are full of things that gather dust."
–  Jack Kerouac

Wikipedia Friday Favorite:
In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page. This week, we gaze back in time and find weird comfort in the Latin phrases expressing the ongoing boisterous craziness of life on earth. Check out the full list.

Enjoy a few samples of Latin phraseology which either (do) or (do not) apply to life as we find it:
  • Quid Pro Quo = something for something
  • Res Ipsa Loquitur = the thing speaks for itself
  • Ipse Dixit = he himself said it
  • In Flagrante Delicto = flaunting the crime while committing it
  • Pons Asnorum = bridge of asses
  • Pro Se = for oneself
  • Reducto Ad Infinitum = leading back to the infinite
  • Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim = Each desperate blockhead dares to write
(One question lingers: why do we call this a “Romance Language?”)

And Finally, Today Only!!! $pecial Offer for Big $pender$
Barter for a Rambler Metropolitan (Full Scale Model)
And we’ll throw in some dishes to go with it!
Write if you (do) or (do not) cross a Pons Asnuram.

Yours in buyargra hell,
Jonathan
www.jonathanmarcus.org

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