100 percent naked, unless you count a tiara as clothing.

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Today we took Freda to have her inward-turning right foot checked out — the younger teen had a serious problem with this and needed shoe inserts for many years. Apparently all is well, check back in a year. She did puke on the bus on the way there and on the way back from motion sickness, just to add to the fun.

This Toshiba Satellite Pro 6050 is completely weird. It was obviously the executive penis toy of its day ... but they put a Celeron in it.

Cetirizine is da bomb for stopping hay fever. It also knocks me out like a light. Still vaguely blurry.

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[damerell.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done. I was just looking through CSF's opening lines when I decided to read the comments - and actually CSF tends to plunge us in in the way he favours. I submit, instead, this for DO NOT USE HELPER WORDS.

"My dear Holmes!", I ejaculated.

... funny out of context, but perfectly fine in.

ETA: also, looking at it, the first para of "The Resident Patient" is blatantly a prologue, the second para begins "It had been a close, rainy day in October", and the story (like most of the Holmes stories) is littered with what he deems to be HELPER WORDS. People exclaim, cry, ask, continue, say in their bustling way, assent, remark, yell, confess, suggest, answer, and - of course - ejaculate. Doyle's style is not exactly modern, but there's nothing wrong with it.

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Conan Doyle's style would arguably have trouble selling these days. Even though it was perfect for his days.

It's the difference between "great work of music" and "will hit the Top 10 in three months."

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Aha, CSF has come through after all:

WEATHER: "A January gale was roaring up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing in its bosom rain squalls whose big drops rattled loudly on the tarpaulin clothing of those amongst the officers and men whose duties kept them on deck."

DESCRIPTION: "Lieutenant William Bush came on board HMS Renown as she lay at anchor in the Hamoaze and reported to the officer of the watch, who was a tall and rather gangling individual with hollow cheeks and a melancholy cast of countenance, whose uniform looked as if it had been put on in the dark and not adjusted since."