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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity

1. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

3. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minuscule.

4. It is fruitless to become alachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

5. Surveillance should precede saltation.

6. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.

7. Freedom from incrustations or grime is contiguous to divinity.

8. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative manoeuvres.

9. Eschew the implement of corruption and vitiate the scion.

10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

11. Neophyte's serendipity.

12. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

13. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrons projectiles.

14. Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous material there is conflagration.

15. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

16. Sorting, on the part of mendicants, must be interdicted.

17. Exclusive dedication to necessary chores without interlude of hedonistic diversion render John a hebetudinous fellow.

18. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiates the potable concotion produced by steeping comestibles.

19. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses, thereby, the optimal cachinnation.

20. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseeous structure but appellations will eternally be benign.


--- So I found this list which provoked me to sort of coin the image, 're-figuring', or 'de-figuring'.

It seems to me that

(i) Exclusive dedication to necessary
chores without interlude of hedonistic
diversion render John a hebetudinous fellow.

and the better known idiom, (ii)

is a matter of 're-figuring'. Etc. In this case there are some ObG to consider, but I won't right now!

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