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Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!
It certainly isn't slight but it's equally certainly sleight:
Oxford:
sleight n.
ME.
[Old Norse slægð (Old Swedish slögdh, Swedish slöjd SLOYD), from slœgr SLY adjective: see -T2.]
A. noun.
1. Cunning; deceitful dealing or policy; artifice, trickery. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
2. Skill, manual dexterity. (Foll. by in, at.) Now rare. ME.
b. Adroitness, smartness, nimbleness of mind, body, etc. In later use influenced by SLEIGHT OF HAND. LME.
A. S. Byatt By some sleight of perception he was looking out at once from the four field-corners. Times He is foolish to suppose that he can solve his difficulties by sleight of words.
3. The precise art or method, the knack of (doing) something. Now dial. ME.
b. spec. Skill in jugglery or conjuring; sleight of hand. M17.
4. A cunning trick; an artful device or design; an artifice, a ruse, a wile. Now rare. ME.
b. A feat of jugglery or legerdemain; a trick or action performed with great dexterity, esp. so as to deceive the eye. L16.
â€* c. A design, a pattern. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
â€*B. adjective.
1. Artful, crafty, wily. ME–L16.
2. Skilful, clever; dexterous. E16–M17.
• â€*sleightly adverb (a) cunningly, craftily; (b) skilfully, dexterously: ME–E17.
• sleighty adjective (now rare) (a) having or using sleight or craft; (b) characterized by sleight or dexterity; crafty, subtle: LME.
Only on murc! One day we have a dictionary definition of 'jet' while discussing personal jet-packs, then a couple of days later we have dictionary definitions of sleight when looking at pervy magic
But it seems to reinforce the theory that a good stripper doesn't HAVE to be BEAUTIFUL, she just has to be good at working the audience. And this one certainly is.
The false thumb tip... goes... in... her... *sigh*
If only she weren't skugly.
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I'm the least you could do
If only life were as easy as you
I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
If only life were as easy as you
I would still get screwed
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