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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Sun Nov 16, 2014, 08:34 AM Nov 2014

Abligurition

abligurition n.- excessive spending on food and drinks.
As in: Get out your loose pants, the season of abligurition is upon us.

(Still Life with Turkey Pie by Pieter Claesz, 1627)

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Abligurition (Original Post) My Good Babushka Nov 2014 OP

What a lovely painting! HeiressofBickworth Nov 2014 #1

Everything is so precisely arranged on the table to give balance. Tuesday Afternoon Nov 2014 #2

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

1. What a lovely painting!

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Sun Nov 16, 2014, 11:34 PM

Nov 2014

Thanks for posting it.

And a new word -- not sure how I will fit it into a conversation with my daughter who is glued to her phone-thing. I sometimes wonder if she will be surprised when she puts the phone down to see that I have aged.

Tuesday Afternoon

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2. Everything is so precisely arranged on the table to give balance.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2014, 10:42 AM

Nov 2014

and the pos/neg ratio is so perfectly 60/40. The detail is amazing almost like a photograph.

Thanks for the word and picture.

Perfection.

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