9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for August 01, 2010

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Thorax says, "Good day, kind sir. I wonder if I could interest you in signing this petition for the establishment of 'P-L for B Day' as a national holiday. It would enrich the language of the quotidian discourse, and break up what might otherwise be banal conversation. Allow me to demonstrate..." Thorax says, "An otherwise tedious recitation about one's garden would instead, on 'P-L' for B Day,' sound like this: 'One can ploast without plomplast that there is nothing more pleautiful to plehold this time of year, than the host of plirds, ladyplugs and plumplleplees aplounding in my plegonia pleds, pluzzing aplout the pllossoms and plouncing in the sunpleams.'" Elliott says, "That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard." Elliott says, "No, I won't sign your stupid petition." Thorax says, "Plastard."