Dave

Hats off to the constructor's mom: snicklefritz is given the day in the sun it needs; that's a jewel of a word there, rarer than the finest onyx.

It's humbling to know, after many years of trumpet playing, that there's more to learn. "Tucket" was a stage direction in Elizabethan drama, and lo, oer the intervening years, the term rests smartly in mine ear.

So many uses for chalk--- 1. Blackboards 2.Playgrounds 3. Billiards 4. Rock climbing 5. Gymnastics And I'd add in the use from the classical music world: string players who rosin the beaux!