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Fun with language.
So you're wondering, erm, suppose I want to get MADD...
Well you're in good company (not just with Kelly Ripa:)

According to the vast wisdom of the Internet, number 322:

It was considered elegant for aristocratic ladies of the sixteenth century to let their ... hair grow as long as possible so it could be pomaded and adorned with bows and ribbon.

And when they say hair erm, not so much the hair on your head.
Which leads me to wonder, I wonder if you can get a merkin pre-ribboned?
Seems like it would save a lot of work.
Which leads to the delightful word grimalkin.

I was going to include links to dictionary definitions, but my computer has decided for whatever reason, that it doesn't want to talk to www.bartleby.com (via Sherlock 2).
Don't ask me how one minute it can be working fine and the next minute you click and it's unreachable.
The wonders of the Internet. Time to fire up WhatRoute.

Update: Now it works just as mysteriously as it didn't. posted by Richard at 16:48 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)