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Thank you!
I feel like we should have a thread for people to check in before and after protests so we know that everyone returned safely and hasn’t been swept into jail. I don’t think Dump will play by the rules.
Please be safe, Wayward, and everyone else who is exercising their Constitutional right to protest!
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A recent delivery pocked with dozens of stamps. There are more on the left, backside. We’ve never seen anything like this. Should I not be surprised that none of these stamps were postmarked?
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Interesting that in English, “shit” is used to very often used to describe something that has poor quality, as in “junk”. I wonder if Portuguese “porcaria” is used in that way (poor quality), as it is in Spanish (porquería) and Italian. (porcaria).
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Yes. Porcaria is a junk product, object, service or situation. Sometimes we use porco as in a bad service or bad professional.
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I like to look up the etymology of words from time to time. Porqueria is an interesting one
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Oh that’s why piikkisika (needle pig) is porcupine in English.
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That is weird that the post office didn’t cancel the stamps, but maybe the newer employees don’t know to do that, since most package now have postage printed directly at the PO?
At any rate, if they are Un canceled you can reuse them, though it also looks like you might have some collectible stamps if you’re inclined to save them or take the time to sell them.
(I used to get political ads with un-cancelled stamps on them, which I would then reuse to pay bills. 
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How heavy was that package? If those are real stamps, that represents quite a lot of money, it seems to me. (okay, I do see that it was Priority Mail…costs may be higher than I was aware of…)
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I did wonder if it was an ACME anvil, in which case it will not turn out well.
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Porco gets a lot of work in Italian bestemmie (blasphemy) like Porco Dio (or Dio Porco), Porca Madonna, and lots of other places, porcata, porcheria, etc…
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Porcospino in Italian, again, needle pig. Must have listened to them eat…
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My boss just got back from her vacation. She went to Tucson, AZ to go to a rock & gemstone show to do some shopping. She bought all of us some rocks and I’m pretty happy about it 
Not sure what the green one is yet, she has it written down at home so I’ll find out later
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We also have or needle pigs, Porco_espinho, but we prefer Ouriço.
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This is all getting dangerously close to being split off to the Language topic, but I’ll take a chance here: I have heard the Spanish “porqueria” pronounced out in the field, so to speak, and — when delivered in an enthusiastically mocking way — the first syllable, “por”, is strongly emphasized. (Quite funny in the right context.) Is it that way in Portuguese, that emphasis?
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