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It was first available when Britain was under threat from Napoleon but it has now been re-published for free at the Project Gutenberg online digital library. The book includes gems suchs as 'ace of spades' for a widow, 'all-a-mort' to be struck dumb, and 'angling for farthings', which means to beg out of a prison window with a cap or box. The dictionary has already become an online hit. A selection of words can be found here. Explaining the book in the preface at the time, the author writes "The merit of Captain Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue has...

If Keith Olbermann wants to say it’s wrong for honchos at firms getting bailout bucks to bag big bonuses, fine. But the Countdown host should lose the man-of-the-people shtick. On this evening’s Countdown, Olbermann engaged in a gripe-fest about bonuses, corporate jets, etc. with Rep. Maxine Waters. Then, teasing the next segment, came this. KEITH OLBERMANN: Fortunately, at for one instance, Morgan Stanley, there will be no more of those bonuses to angry up the hoi polloi, like us. View video.

For the past several months, fate has conspired to keep me away from the computer. I haven't posted nearly as much on FR as I used to. With the holidays, though, I've had an opportunity to catch up a bit. What I found on my return is a bit disconcerting. While there's always been an element here that refuses to reason and does little more than insult Democrats and RINOs, it seems that this mentality has taken over a large portion of our membership. I've encountered more shrill, radical nonsense in the past couple of days than I had in...

There exists a ''situation'' in society for which I feel totally and eminently qualified on which to comment. As a card carrying member and member in good standing of the Hoi Polloi [the common people], that group of arrogant bastards who think that just because they have a Bill of Rights and a Constitution they are as good as any other American, I can elucidate for the illuminati the mercurial nature and independent spirit of America’s common masses, thus helping them avoid the following perplexing social situation. At a recent, Manhattan dinner party society’s elite upper crust were quite shocked...