Straight Line of the Day: When Did They Do It?

Straight Line of the Day: When did they do it?

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  1. When did they do it?

    Well, it was a fine April morning. Spring was beginning to blossom: the birds were all singing. I was over at Mrs. Bingerhaven-Smythe’s house for tea….
    Oh, dear. If we were having tea, it couldn’t have been morning now, could it? Mrs. Bingerhaven-Smythe is always so persnickety that tea is to be served precisely at 3:15, rain, shine, snow or fog. Always a fine Darjeeling steeped for exactly five minutes, with plenty of cucumber sandwiches, always cut in triangles. Mrs. Bingerhaven-Smythe never actually ate any of the cucumber sandwiches herself, mind you, as she said they weren’t quite compatible with her digestive juices. My, my, my, listen to me just ramble on. I do hope the answer to your query was contained somewhere in all that vocal meandering. I would feel terrible to have given all that effort to no useful purpose.

  2. When did they do it?

    “I used to smoke marijuana. But I’ll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.”

  3. Straight Line of the Day: When Did They Do It? First of all the question shouldn’t be, “When did they do it.” The question should be, “Why did they do it!” Truth is, I don’t know when…or why.

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