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The turkey on the "autum" cake looks like he's about to eat the greeting.
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Pity it is rather expensive though. olgalopez Sep 12 sounds good for the autum with a cup of hot chocolate.
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Tihngz ar gud heer az autum slowli cuulz frum summar !
2 kapchur da cheezburger - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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I realised in the autum that I want to communicate science - I want to build bridges - I am not a lab monkey.
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More recently there is mum's breast cancer so obviously I feel very strongly about events like this - hence the hair dyeing and things in the autum.
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In the autum of 1933, when the Nazi laws cost Gertrud Kornfeld her positions as lecturer and assistant, she immediately left for Great Britain.
Gertrud Kornfeld. 2009
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I fumed as I drove home that autum day; then, half-way there, the click happened.
Joe Cutbirth: Happy Birthday Harvey Milk (and thanks for giving us hope) 2009
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Today is the funeral of a family friend, he died at the beginning of the month and there had to be an inquest and things - me and Al only met him once when we made him a birthday cake and assorted other things back in the autum.
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This past autum I had Pumpkin pancakes at Kerby Lane.
Gingerbread pancakes for Shrove Tuesday | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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Heer tehy come in dere sparkloly liotardes, dekoratid wiv autum leefs in goldeny, reddy, orinjee, shayds.
Service Catnician - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word autum
(noun) - (1) A church. Autum-bawler, a parson. Autumed, married. Autum-cove, a married man. Autum-cackler, a married woman.
--George Matsell's Vocabulum; or, The Rogue's Lexicon, 1859
(2) Autem-divers, pickpockets who practise in churches; also church-wardens and overseers of the poor. Autem-mort, a married woman.
--Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796
January 14, 2018