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In reply to the discussion: What the hell is wrong with the word "crisp?" [View all]yorkster
(3,832 posts)and things were never the same. Crunchy had spunk and crisp wanted some of that and just plain took it.
Now as for me, I hate scrumptious, which brings up memories of my otherwise happy childhood. Mostly telly memories of 50s housewives and poor women with bad hairdos in mink coats standing by gleaming appliances because they were queen for a day. That's what you saw if you were sick on the couch and not in school.
The silly programs had ads for "scrumptious" desserts,.
As a kid, I felt badly for those women. It was a scam. Lives would not be changed
and soon everything would revert to what it was before the lady won the prize.
Thank gawd for Dave Garroway and Adlai Stevenson. ..
But, I digress, she said, long after the digression became the main event...
See what "mindfields" your
post brought out. Ain't words wunnerful?