Damus
gojiberra · 1w
i have always understood "waiting for the penny to drop" as "waiting for a juicy tidbit to come out" or something like that. the penny has dropped now
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well, if that all was legitimate reportage that you told in a somewhat unclear style as being reportage. you must be in a state of low key confusion right now. one of those moments in your life where you keep on asking "did someone slip me something in my drink?" sorta situation.

i was just riffing on the whole cows and cattle tags and people up to no good trying to claim something that fell out of someone's boundary.

it's quite a tale, i gotta say, and i'm sure that i didn't help you make it any simpler.
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gojiberra · 1w
wait, this is exactly the voice that i was trying for in my story. you do the wodehouse for 1 note and then put on some other voice in other notes. i was trying for wodehouse inspired narration of real events. it *was* the fence builder's heifer that escaped. i didn't realize that was funny til so...
mleku · 1w
also, just wanna throw some more cats into the pigeon enclosure. consider "red heifer" into the mix (no, not jersey cow, this is a specific, ancient thing"