"Balmy," meaning "weak-minded" is from 1851 London slang. I would have been a long time learning this if I hadn’t read AKMA’s post referencing Tom’s link to Douglas Harper’s Online Etymology Dictionary. The title of this, my own post, has nothing to do with it’s antecedents! Rather, it’s just a little alliterative trope, like "a little alliterative" if you get my drift… words strung together more for effect than precise meaning… never mind. None of this shit is intentional. You just shake the box and let the words fall out.
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I like the way your words fall apart out, like a jigsaw puzzle and you have all the pieces. Some of us can’t see the picture on the box and only have most some of the pieces.
MOTHER MAY I TYPE THAT AGAIN
I like the way your words fall out, like a jigsaw puzzle and you have all the pieces. Some of us can’t see the picture on the box and only have some of the pieces.
If alliteration is a little like an alphabetic lotto, then a lot of alliteration could be said to be a little like alotteration. You yeasty beast you.