Parsnips were so valuable Emperor Tiberius permitted Germania to provide parsnips as tribute starting in AD 4. Major languages adopted words from parsnips.

Yes, I do like to vomit upon the carpet under the piano.  Of course it is much harder to clean there than it is to clean vomit off the linoleum in the kitchen.  Why else would I do there – if not to make them get on their hands and knees?  It is obvious that the...

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