Friends Don't Let Friends Drive With Cod in Their Trousers

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Yes, that's right, back by popular demand, it's the FDLFDWCTT Newsletter. [applause, whistling] And now your host, Andrew, Newsletter Guy! [more applause, stomping of feet]

Thank you, thank. Yes, thank you. You're a wonderful audience, really. Give yourselves a hand. [scattered applause] And how about that band, huh? Let's hear it for Sentimental Wad of Mucus! [wild hoots and whistles over prolongued drum roll] Ok, Ok, our first guest is a regular here on the show. Let's give a great big Newsletter welcome to New Members!!! [wild applause, hooting, yelling of encouragment]

Ok, that's about as far as I feel like taking that particular metaphor. [applause, slowly dying out at glare from Newsletter Guy] As far as new members, we do have some! I can only think of one at the moment, but if you know of any, or are one yourself, please remind me, and I'll promptly send out a newsletter next September ignoring you again. At any rate, the new member I do remember is Member Vince, from Detroit. Now there (THE FRENCH WILL RULE THE WORLD. OUI. HA HA HA! VIVE LA FRANCE!) (Member Jennifer added that as I wrote this section in English Class. I aplologize profusely.) is probably some sort of cosmic irony in Detroit being famous for cars and our organization being about driving and all, but I prefer to leave the green avocado of cosmic irony on the produce counter of intellectualism, to be taken home and made into metaphysical guacamole some other time.

Well, that's not actually ALL the new members. I was going to mention Enrique, Member Ian and Member Mike's love child, but then I realized that could be embarassing for them, so I decided not to add Enrique, Member Ian and Member Mike's love child, to the new members section. Yes, that's Enrique, Member Ian and Member Mike's love child. Right, Love Child. I sure hope Members Ian and Mike appreciate my not talking about their LOVE CHILD, ENRIQUE, in this newsletter. They probably won't. They never thank me for helping them out like this. I sure hope ENRIQUE, their LOVE CHILD, doesn't turn out the same way. Ok, that's enough of that.

And now it's time for the shameless advertising portion of our Newsletter!!! This time I'm whoring this space out to Youth in Review, a great new book review website designed by this amazingly cool guy (er, me). The address is https://members.tripod.com/~youthinreview. (No, that's not you thin review, Jennifer, it's youth in review. Stop confusing the readers.) Alright, that's enough cheapening of our glorious publication.

Just kidding, enough is never too much! You should also go visit the new and improved FDLFDWCTT Web Empire, at it's usual address (https://members.tripod.com/~angumbdo/ codtrousers.html).

Well, other than the new members and web page renovation, there hasn't been much happening, FDLFDWCTT-wise. Hence the dearth of newsletters for the past few months. So if you want to get a newsletter, do something I can write about!!! Hey, I can't do anything, I have my hands full not doing all the homework I don't have. Non-Homework like the following vocab list I did in about five minutes for my AP Senior English class (I actually got full credit for not doing my vocab in this fashion). But before we get to that, I just want to add that if anyone happens to have a copy of Newsletter 19, assuming there was one, or possibly 20, if there was one of those too and this should really be newsletter 21, could they please send me a copy? My computer decided to permanently go into safe mode (named safe mode because it stops you from doing anything dangerously productive) and I had to reformat the hard drive, which has a nasty tendency to erase anything and everything saved on it. I did back up some stuff on disks and stored them safely under my computer speakers, but for some reason they don't seem to work anymore. So anyway, if you can send me one, great, if not, thanks for nothing you lazy sloth. You're right, that is enough rambling for now, so on to The Vocab List:

1. Abrasive-something that is brasive, singular.

2. Beatitude-something which has beat. Like the Beatles.

3. Bete noire-a French person in black who beat the Beatles.

4. Bode-something which is foretelling. "It did not bode well."

5. Dank-stanky. "Mr. Mcfadden's breath is dank."

6. Ecumenical-having to do with something which is ecumeniary.

7. Fervid-something having fers.

8. Fetid-something which has already been fet.

9. Gargantuan-the sound Mr. Mcfadden makes after too much "coffee".

10. Heyday-a day set aside by the federal government on which we must all say "hey".

11. Incubus-a bus which travels often to the land of incus.

12. Inveigle-something nasty to do to someone you don't like.

13. Kudos-a very tasty snack bar.

14. Lagniappe-an unpronouncable vocab word.

15. Prolix-someone who licks on a professional basis.

16. Protégé-a very nice new car, now available from your local Honda dealer.

17. Sycophant-a phant who runs around killing people, soon to be the subject of a video we'll see in Arellano's class.

18. Tautology-the science of teaching in the past tense.

19. Truckle-like a trickle, only not.