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In the UK, mews (which can refer to a single building or multiple, attached buildings) is not a word for "row houses". Mews are former stable/carriage houses from Georgian and Victorian times, and they do not front onto streets. They are in alleyways or courtyards behind both commercial and residential buildings, or behind individual homes or businesses. They were the rear garages of their time many of them have been converted into really lovely residences which have retained their original stable doors. Row houses--which front onto streets---are called terraces or terraced houses. in the UK if a place is called a mews, it really was stables. In North America, 20th century property developers began naming roads of newly-built regular street-fronting rows of attached or semi-detached (and horse-free) houses "Mews" because it has a charming, olde-worlde sound to it.
This puzzle made me sleepy. I kept falling into a comma.
The Seneca are one of the Six Nations of the Grand River. It hasn't been the Five Nations since 1722 when the Tuscarora joined the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The Grand River Reserve is about 40 miles west of Toronto. The Six Nations are Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. It's the largest First Nations reserve in Canada, and a really great place to visit.
Warning: Don't use Pledge as a floor cleaner. It's a furniture polish meant to make surfaces very slippery in order to prevent dust adhering to them. And the last thing floors would do if one put Pledge on them is squeak.
Fun fact from an elderly Canadian. The "Spock Five" craze--during which, with a marker pen, one transformed the person on the five dollar bill-- the late PM Sir Wilfrid Laurier--into Spock. If you happened to receive a Spock Five in the course of a financial transaction, it was considered a lucky day. This went on for years. It wasn't illegal, but eventually the Bank of Canada got annoyed with it and asked everybody to quit their "inappropriate" Spocking. You can image search "spock five dollar bill canada" to see some examples.
@SJ Demo ...or "What's this here sauce?" But it's actually pronounced "Lea & Perrins"
@Barry Ancona A strawberry shortstop?
@Jerry, A "Stan" is a term for an obsessed fan. It comes from a collaboration song by Eminem and Dido. In the verses, Eminem describes a series of letters from a fan whose correspondence is becoming more and more unhealthy, interspersed with choruses from Dido's song "Thank You", in which she describes the comfort a good relationship can bring in troubled time. It ends with Eminem writing the fan back, trying to comfort him. The song is 25 years old, but the term has stuck. Btw, the end parts of the thematic answers are not connected in meaning to the slang parts at the beginning. It's that the slang plus the end part together create a third, quite well-known reference.
With apologies to delightful Setter Goldstein...when I saw the them, I couldn't resist trying to make up more of them. ...for Fido's summer outfit: hot pants ...for a drummers' formal headware: high hat ...for an ENT's accessories: earrings ...for a naturist's special event: birthday suit I'm trying to quit.
All that and the great Muddy Waters too!
@Cat Lady Margaret Shenom! Excellent!!!
@Gary Scheele So did I, and it took me a while as well. I had most of the top half done except for the themed bits, which I just left out. It took Vasco da Gama to drop the penny. Portuguese world explorers come in handy when you don't know where to Goa!
@jennie I didn't know that. I guess it's because here they're not an historical entity that's gone, they're current day nations that are here And there are six of them! Actors and musians come from there. Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto in the Lone Ranger was a Mohawk, Grahame Greene (Dances with Wolves, Northern Exposure) is Oneida, Robbie Roberston from the group The Band was Cayuga and Mohawk.
@Fredegunde Always claim the bat.
@SP That's what I think as well. Elegant and classy. The Ken more than made up for the Arhat...
@Roger André Braugher--what an actor. And what a voice! If he'd made an album called "André Braugher Reads Ikea Instructions", I'd have bought it and listened to it regularly.
Johnny Carson at 14 across! : D
@Andrew Rishi is so skinny he barely has a seat. And at some point, he should put some jam on his shoes and invite his trousers to tea...
Rats multiply, gnats multiply, and so do I.
@Paul It's two two two mints in one!
@Francis As I remember it, Laurier went on the $5 note in 1969. But the craze seemed to begin with The Next Generation series in '87. A trekkie friend of mine became a Spocker at that time--and one he'd done was the first one I saw. It made me laugh a lot. I didn't realise it was going to be a craze though!
Thank you for your concern, Rich! I hope not, because I gotta dash shortly.
@G Thank you! Uh-oh, another one. ...for a private investigator during a cold winter: nosey parker
@Mean Old Lady I know! I kinda just didn't want to say it... :-)
@Grant I just said that too, before having read your reply!
@Grant btw before you rush, make sure the floors haven't been cleaned with furniture polish!
@Mean Old Lady That's entertainment!
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