{"id":107,"date":"2003-08-16T14:13:57","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/08\/16\/graffito-misterioso\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T18:13:57","slug":"graffito-misterioso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/08\/16\/graffito-misterioso\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffito Misterioso"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Painted in half-foot high black letters on the sidewalk on Broadway, across from the Rindge & Latin school:<\/p>\n

FITZ

\nFIXES

\nFEIST’S

\nFITS
<\/p>\n

And the internet claims that “fat suffices<\/a>“. Apparently there’s a character in a Raymond E. Feist book named “Fitz”. Ah well, I guess I just don’t get it. (Update<\/b>: or do I<\/a>?)<\/p>\n

In other news, the acorns are back! (kids — that’s oak-corn!) So now I get several months of satisfying foot-crunch as I walk to work. They were awfully resilient today — not aged enough to have gotten crunchy, I reckon — but I’ll test them every day, yeah I’m ready for them. This year I think I’ll dig into the ol’ bag o’ tricks and use two acorn-hats and a black pen to make little Frenchmen out of my thumbs:<\/p>\n

Thumb 1 (bowing<\/i>): “Parlez-vous pouce?”
\nThumb 2 (bowing<\/i>): “Oui, merci! (pause<\/i>) Pardon, monsieur, est-ce que vous avez du pouce?”
\nThumb 1 (disconsolately<\/i>): “Hellas, non.”
\nThumb 2 (anticly<\/i>): “Alors, j’ai une pouce très grande – elle est plus grand que toi! Hon hon hon!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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