From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:07:50 +0000, Richard Smith    
   wrote:   
      
   >> Among the long German words I had to learn was spring fever's   
   >> equivalent, Fruhjahrsmudigkeit.   
   >   
   >"Early year's state-of-tiredness"   
   >   
   >You can simply want winter to end.  It can "drag-on".   
   >But aagghhhh the "lurghi season".   
   >Especially in shared houses with people going to Universities, different   
   >jobs, young teachers, etc. - all exposed to different abundant sources   
   >of the latest virus doing the rounds...   
   >Yup, the February "I just want to give up" feeling as you fill   
   >the waste-paper-bin by the bed with green goo saturated strong "kitchen   
   >roll" papers as you lie there groaning from the umpteenth virus in   
   >succession.   
   >(a "tissue" from a fanfold box would be like a paper target benefitting   
   >from a close-up shotgun blast)   
      
      
    3 ply tissue season. The schnoz gets tender enough without using   
   sandpaper on it!!!!!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)