Red Mosquito

Bammer wrote:1 beer is “a beer”

2 beers are “a couple beers”

3 beers are “a few beers”

4-5 beers are “a handful of beers”

(replace beers with anything … donuts, dollars, whatever)

The question: How many of something is “several”?

bodysnatcher wrote:Some > several > handful > numerous > many > case

Bammer wrote:I had one before the baseball game today. None during.

Anyway this evening now I’m on #4.

spike wrote:

Bammer wrote:I had one before the baseball game today. None during.

Anyway this evening now I’m on #4.

you have exceeded a few and reached several.

wease wrote:This was decided on the last season of Survivor. Several = seven.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:If you needed meth in the next two hours, do you have the connections to access it?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:If you needed meth in the next two hours, do you have the connections to access it?

Jorge wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:If you needed meth in the next two hours, do you have the connections to access it?

Not directly but I could get it within 2 or 3 referrals