And, no, DRs TCB, elmore and JRand, that is not a euphemism!


DRJose, TIDDLING would have been a euphemism. I feel I can speak for my learned confreres that we know the meaning of toddle. Topple, as well, and tipple.

Good morning, all! I wish someone would walk into the apartment right now on this ugly rainy morning and shoot me between the eyes. It's too early, I have to go out in around 30 minutes, and I slept very poorly last night so I'm moving cautiously.
Desert Island Discs:
1. Dawn Upshaw: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
2. Kern: Sitting Pretty
3. Bernstein: Candide (OBC)
4. Bizet: Carmen (Solti, Tatiana Troyanos or Beecham and De Los Angeles)
5. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Giulini conducting Schwartzkopf, Moffo et al))
6. Sondheim: Sweeney Todd (OBC)
7. Guy Haines' album, which sustained me most of last year
Yesterday's topic got me thinking about books the DRs wish they'd written, and I'll start:
Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE / PERSUASION
Bradbury's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Stella Gibbons' COLD COMFORT FARM
Scott Smith's A SIMPLE PLAN
Hammett's THE THIN MAN