George Floyd square being cleared

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Thursday June 03, 2021 · 6:27 AM PDT

2021/06/03 · 06:27

Ms Unthinkable and I woke up to helicopters about 7 this morning. Four or five of them. The cops staged near our house in Powderhorn park. Cops in riot gear, on bikes, in ATVs, in cars. They rolled out just after 8a this morn.

We’re four blocks away from the square, and haven’t heard any ruckus yet. Not much of a diary, but I thought people would like to know.

I thought the sniff was just a figure of speech

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Friday January 10, 2014 · 7:56 PM PST

2014/01/10 · 19:56

You know; when someone says, "That's nothing to sniff at." Related phrases are calling someone "snooty", or saying that someone "looked down their nose at you." Imagine the well-heeled aristocrat, eyes half-closed, dismissing a person of (so-called) lower-station.

I know that words and phrases and names are generally not pulled from thin air, and that their origins are often based on actions. But to me those phrases seemed largely to be an affect from the distant past, something from a Dickens novel, perhaps. Up until about ten years ago. After being on the receiving end of several sniffs today, I just need to get it out. More below the orange kos cloud…

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Have you received the sniff of derision?

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Have you received the sniff of derision?

Yes

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I think so

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I've given it

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I smell pie

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