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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: E who wrote (2244)3/27/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: Chuzzlewit  Read Replies (3) of 4711
 
E, I am very confused. In you post you quote this fragment:

And of course although it would take considerable rationality for any creature to rise above obstaclettes

Now it is well known that an obstaclette is a device used in hat blocking. Specifically, it is an instrument used to straighten the small feather sometimes used to adorn fedoras. Why would a creature wish to rise above an obstaclette?

But perhaps you are referring to the second meaning of the word -- a long-extinct tortoise-like mammal that had trouble figuring things out. Simple things, like eating were difficult enough, but breeding posed insurmountable obstacles because obstaclettes believed that virginity was a virtue. Hence the name. Medieval chastity belts were modeled after female obstaclettes.

For some reason texts on medieval history, hat blocking and paleontology seem to lack these historical nuggets.

Unimpeachable Source: Chuzzlewit's Bestiary & Deviant Dictionary (Revised Edition)

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