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    What should not be like Esau or Lazarus, and who else should it not be like?

    Question #126325. Asked by Baloo55th. (Jul 03 12 3:47 PM)


    Newbie1M

    Cheese - from Thomas Tusser's poem

    Not like Gehazi, i.e., dead white, like a leper
    Not like Lot's wife, all salt
    Not like Argus, full of eyes
    Not like Tom Piper, "hoven and puffed"
    Not like Crispin, leathery
    Not like Lazarus, poor
    Not like Esau, hairy
    Not like Mary Magdalene, full of whey or maudlin
    Not like the Gentiles, full of maggots
    Not like a Bishop, made of burnt milk

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tusser

    Jul 03 12, 5:08 PM
    Baloo55th

    Yay (with cheese...)! You now all know how to use interesting terms to complain about the cheese you were served.

    Jul 04 12, 4:44 AM


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