You loose a hell of a lot of characterization if you do that ... how
will you know if they like pie or corn?
--Stewart
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:49 PM, J.C. Hocking <jchocking@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've heard a similar remark, but the individual was described as being so buck toothed that she could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.
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> From now on, should I encounter the fearfully hackneyed "hatchet-faced" in any of my reading, noir or otherwise, I shall simply mentally replace it with 'buck toothed".
> Proactive reading makes cliches disappear.
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> From: capnbob@nventure.com <capnbob@nventure.com>
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: hatchet faced
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 7:19 PM
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> Some good ol' boys I knew in the Army used to say, "She was so hatchet faced she could eat a piece
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> Robert S. Napier, author
> LOVE, DEATH, AND THE TOYMAN
> The Toyman Rides Again (March 2010)
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