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  • Here I be, rotten an 'coffin-ripe any time this two year, yet I'm passed awver for that braave young youth.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

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  • (adjective) - On the verge of death. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905

    January 27, 2018

  • At what point does one become coffin-overripe?

    January 27, 2018

  • Dunno, but we could offer a service where we go around and press our thumbs into you a bit, like with avocadoes.

    January 31, 2018

  • Sounds messy. Will we get gloves?

    January 31, 2018

  • who will be all squishy

    croak and make a wishy

    who will be all squishy

    when the boat comes in?

    January 31, 2018

  • You magnificent sod

    February 2, 2018