Word: masher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more often the songs are, at their worst, over-written love songs and, at their finest, amusing and witty pieces about the familiar pining and lure of a lonesome guy. In Masher, from his new album, Darnielle sings of language deficiency and woodland creatures: "Most of the things I used to hold on to / most of the thins I used to say to you / most of the ways I knew around the local roads / are disappearing daily." In Cubs in Five, a sarcastically hopeful song, John vows not to fall in love again until a convergence of unlikely events...
...There was this employee in a restaurant in Harvard Square," Tripp says of a recent medical emergency. "One of the cooks got his hand caught in a potato-masher; there was mashed-potato and blood all over the wall...
...permanently. But I bided my time, and the aunts who ran the show grew old, and young, liberated lady relatives came along who were proud of their inability to cook, and one year I revolted and took over the kitchen--and now I am It. The Big Turkey. Mr. Masher...
...Make the masher pay! Elbow him in the groin, knock him to ground and cut off his... Uh, I mean, tell him very loudly and explicitly to stop so that everyone on the elevator knows. However, if he really scares you, you might want to tell someone about it and avoid the elevator at that time for a little while. You can call the Harvard Police at 5-1212, Assistant Dean for Co-Education Virginia Mackay-Smith at 6-5989, and Response at 5-9600. Don't let the bastard mash ya, tough guy/gal...
...event reached a feverish pitch when the Big Masher broke the local record. As the machine began to pull I unconsciously rose to my feet. When it lurched forward pulling the weight, I lost it altogether...