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adjective

1) Of people: Frank, fair, ingenuous, open.

“Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
And vindicate the ways of God to man.” - Pope

2) Of things: Fair, unbiased.

[French candide = (1) white, bright, (2) innocent, upright, etc; Latin candidus = white, bright, clear; candeo = to be bright or white.]

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In the best of all possible worlds, some blokes would rather be Candide, to be perfectly frank.

If they were Candide, they wouldn’t be Frank. Francine, perhhaps.

Candide was a bloke as well, but being evidently less than perfectly frank,  his mates would have given him a hard time of it - panglossing the lily, perhaps.

A thousand pardons. I was thinking Lolita for some strange reason (but not that strange reason).

douglang - 15 May 2009 12:56 PM

Candide was a bloke as well, but being evidently less than perfectly frank,  his mates would have given him a hard time of it - panglossing the lily, perhaps.

panglossing the lily????
How pariphrastic!

saparris - 15 May 2009 01:00 PM

A thousand pardons. I was thinking Lolita for some strange reason (but not that strange reason).

Ah Lolita.  When that Nabokov (?) movie was made the local Roman bishop placed the theater under interdict (verboten in the Church), and because
it lost so much revenue, and who knows how many other reasons, the theater closed, and is now a parking lot: that back in the 60’s (?).

Vladimir Nabokov.

That’s the bird.

The bird? Are you saying that the bird’s the word? And wasn’t that a song?

Movie or song or something, I remember the phrase “the bird is the word”.
It certainly was a movie for Alfred Hitchcock:

The song was bad and the band short-lived, but the movie was way cool!

Au contraire!
I don’t care for horror movies,
and I love birds to much to enjoy that one.
Saw it once and regret it to this day.
If I want horror I will go to a “two legged alligator man” infests Miami swampland, or some such.
So sorry.

I’m not much on horror movies, especially as I get older. There’s enough in real life to scare me.

However, if I ever wanted to scare myself with a movie, it would be with a cerebral movie rather than the monster type. I saw The Birds as a younger person because I was a fan of Hitchcock on TV.

Is your spell check working? Mine isn’t.

I give up ! 
I don’t know where it is.

Maybe if I spellded sometings rwong I could finded owt.

I don’t often misspell unelse on pupoze like, so were is the gimmicky thing to tell me.

It’s write under the message after you click POST.

(Just above the place where you attach the parakeets.)