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milque⋅toast   /ˈmɪlkˌtoʊst/ Show Spelled [milk-tohst] –noun (sometimes initial capital letter) a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, esp. one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who’s afraid to ask for a raise. Also called Caspar Milquetoast. Origin: 1935–40, Americanism; after Caspar Milquetoast, a character in The Timid Soul, comic strip by H. T. Webster [...]

I was using the rowing machine in the gym last night as I have endeavored to do twice a week for over a year now – and something out of the ordinary happened. There were 5 machines to my right and 1 to my left. I hadn’t even started yet when a 45 year old [...]

some say the divil is dead and buried in killarney, more say he rose again and joined the british army – the wolfe tones I got some search traffic via “tipperary enfer hell” from an old post where I mentioned Sartre’s most famous quotation, “Hell is other people.” (In French, “l’enfer, c’est les autres”) – [...]

This post is dedicated to J-to-the-K who loves this blog and had decided to become a patron of toastville, whatever that entails is yet to be finalised. We saw some of the world championships on tv and had a discussion about what a gender test for athletes would involve. We naturally gravitated to the tell [...]