[Knitting A Conundrum]

LOL... Ah, how we love to assert:

Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions. 1 Timothy 1:6,7.

And how many electrons do we sacrifice at that altar...LOL!

And dear RM has to be there to make sure we don't use brickbats in the process!

[P-Marlowe]

brick·bat (brkbt)

n.

1. A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile.

2. An unfavorable remark; a criticism.

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[brick + bat¹, piece of brick.]

Word History: The earliest sense of brickbat, first recorded in 1563, was "a piece of brick." Such pieces of brick have not infrequently been thrown at others in the hope of injuring them; hence, the figurative brickbats (first recorded in 1929) that critics hurl at performances they dislike. The appearance of bat as the second part of this compound is explained by the fact that the word bat, "war club, cudgel," developed in Middle English the sense "chunk, clod, wad," and in the 16th century came to be used specifically for a piece of brick that was unbroken on one end.