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classical letters 

a physical, non technological, personal form of correspondence, excluding e-mail, fax, Skype, youtube, or phone. This type of communication was called, from Pharaonic Egypt, i.e. before the arrival of computers, personal epistolary correspondence
mother (before daughter goes off to University) : please write me classical letters, I am somewhat technologically challenged, and can't remember the password to access my email.

daughter: I can always write you a few classical letters, but they take time to come home. You are lucky I happen to know what they are. No one in my class but me knows what classical letters are anymore
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classical letters 

a physical, non technological, personal form of correspondence, excluding e-mail, fax, Skype, youtube, or phone
mother (before daughter goes off to University) : please write me classical letters, I am somewhat technologically challenged, and can't remember the password to access my email.

daughter: I can always write you a few classical letters, but they take time to come home. You are lucky I happen to know what they are. No one in my class but me knows what classical letters are anymore; we live in such a tech dominated world.

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026
Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
Word of the Day on May 30, 2026
An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.
That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026
Word of the Day on May 29, 2026