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  • "Then, sir, that's just what you owes me, who says to you now -- just you go on deck and breathe the fresh wind, for this here place would a'most stuffocate a goose."

    Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

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  • To be killed by one's posessions.

    July 9, 2007

  • I love this one!

    July 10, 2007

  • Excellent! Story of my life. ;-)

    July 10, 2007

  • I'm struggling against it. Unfortunately, I have a family history of stuffocation. Just this spring, we saw the carpet in my father's office for the first time since 1988. Scary.

    July 10, 2007

  • Yep, it's a good one. I also am from a family of stuffocators.

    July 10, 2007

  • Thanks, all of you. Of course that word would not have occurred to me if it was not a real threat in my own life!

    July 10, 2007