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        CYRANO: Ah no! young blade! That was a trifle short! You might have said at least a hundred things By varying the tone. . .like this, suppose,. . .

        Aggressive: ‘Sir, if I had such a nose I’d amputate it!’

        Friendly: ‘When you sup It must annoy you, dipping in your cup; You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!’

        Descriptive: ''Tis a rock!. . .a peak!. . .a cape! – A cape, forsooth! ‘Tis a peninsular!’

        Curious: ‘How serves that oblong capsular? For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?’

        Gracious: ‘You love the little birds, I think? I see you’ve managed with a fond research To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!’

        Truculent: ‘When you smoke your pipe. . .suppose That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose– Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher, Cry terror-struck: “The chimney is afire”?’

        Considerate: ‘Take care,. . .your head bowed low By such a weight. . .lest head o’er heels you go!’

        Tender: ‘Pray get a small umbrella made, Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!’

        Pedantic: ‘That beast Aristophanes Names Hippocamelelephantoles Must have possessed just such a solid lump Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead’s bump!’

        Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook? To hang your hat on? ‘Tis a useful crook!’

        Emphatic: ‘No wind, O majestic nose, Can give THEE cold!–save when the mistral blows!’

        Dramatic: ‘When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!’

        Admiring: ‘Sign for a perfumery!’

        Lyric: ‘Is this a conch?. . .a Triton you?’

        Simple: ‘When is the monument on view?’

        Rustic: 'That thing a nose? Marry-come-up! ‘Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!’

        Military: ‘Point against cavalry!’

        Practical: ‘Put it in a lottery! Assuredly ‘twould be the biggest prize!’ Or. . .parodying Pyramus’ sighs. . . ‘Behold the nose that mars the harmony Of its master’s phiz! blushing its treachery!’

        –Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said, Had you of wit or letters the least jot: But, O most lamentable man!–of wit You never had an atom, and of letters You have three letters only!–they spell Ass! And–had you had the necessary wit, To serve me all the pleasantries I quote Before this noble audience. . .e’en so, You would not have been let to utter one– Nay, not the half or quarter of such jest! I take them from myself all in good part, But not from any other man that breathes!

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      South Nevada looks like it gets half… maybe more… of Las Vegas with the rest of Vegas going to Oklahoma, there’s definitely a great joke about ‘the Strip’ in here. I’m worried about North Nevada though… without Vegas Nevada is looking rough.

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    Love how nevada can be two separate pieces but oklahoma? Needs to be connected to the coast, can’t just put a little oklahoma piece there no no

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        I was thinking more that metal tray on a long pole that Catholic altar boys use to catch an accidentally dropped eucharist when the parishoner’s tongue is especially dry.