Using the last word First

[snoball]

Life is rough like that sometimes.

 

[Donna T]

Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.

 

[Terri]

Post your work as often as possible....we get so much inspiration from each other.

 

[snoball]

Other than that, get back to painting!

 

[Artyczar]

Painting has been my only great distraction from everything lately, but at least it's wonderfully helpful.

 

[snoball]

Helpful people are in high demand but very few in number.

 

[Iain]

Number is but an age.

 

[snoball]

Age is mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter.

 

[Iain]

Matter has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

(Plagiarism!)

 

[Desforges]

Of Mice and Men was published in 1937.

 

[snoball]

1937 must have been a good year, I wouldn't know.

 

[Iain]

"Know thyself" is an ancient Greek aphorism, while "Shake and vac, get the freshness back" is neither ancient nor Greek, but is as equally edifying for the modern individual as the words carved on the temple at Delphi were to the Ancient Athenian.

(I guess some might consider a catchphrase from a 1980s commercial as ancient)

 

[Terri]

"Ancient" is the work I choose to pick up from Iain's post, because "Athenian" left my mind a blank!

 

[snoball]

Blank minds can be very peaceful.

 

[Iain]

Peaceful will be the mad little Czar when novichok is slipped into his samnovar.

 

[snoball]

Samnovar is a rarely used word here in the U.S., we are more likely to just use the word urn.

 

[Artyczar]

Urn is not a vessel to use as a thermos.

 

[snoball]

Thermos, conversely, should not be used as an urn.

 

[Artyczar]

Urn is a word we are stuck with to start a sentence with, which wasn't easy in the first place.

 

[Desforges]

Place is often used to determine a space, although we wouldn’t say a space mat.