Perhaps Freud's single most enduring and important idea was that the human psyche (personality) has more than one aspect.  Freud's personality theory (1923) saw the psyche structured into three parts:  the id, ego and superego, all developing at different stages in our lives.  These are systems, not parts of the brain, or in any way physical.  McLeod, S. A. (2019, September 25).  Find extensive descriptions of the three parts of the psyche at Id, ego and superego.  Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html 

‘As dead as a doornail' has been in use since at least the 14th century.  There's a reference to it in print in 1350, a translation by William Langland of the French poem Guillaume de Palerne:  "For but ich haue bote of mi bale I am ded as dorenayl."  Langland also used the expression in the much more famous poem The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman, 1370-90:  Fey withouten fait is febelore þen nouȝt, And ded as a dore-nayl.  [Faith without works is feebler than nothing, and dead as a doornail.]   The expression was in widespread colloquial use in England by the 16th century, when Shakespeare gave these lines to the rebel leader Jack Cade in King Henry VI, Part 2, 1592:  Look on me well:  I have eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.  Medieval doors, with nails which can't be reused, are the source of the expression.  There are several 'as dead as . . . ' idioms, amongst the most notable examples being 'as dead as a dodo' and 'as dead as mutton'.  Doornails are the large-headed studs that were used in earlier times for strength and more recently as decoration.  The practice was to hammer the nail through and then bend the protruding end over to secure it.  This process, similar to riveting, was called clenching.  This may be the source of the 'deadness', as such a nail would be unusable afterwards.  https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-dead-as-a-doornail.html   

A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) invented in 1994 by the Japanese automotive company Denso Wave.  A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached.  In practice, QR codes often contain data for a locator, identifier, or tracker that points to a website or application.  A QR code uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte/binary, and kanji) to store data efficiently; extensions may also be used.  The Quick Response system became popular outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes.  Applications include product tracking, item identification, time tracking, document management, and general marketing.  A QR code consists of black squares arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by an imaging device such as a camera, and processed using Reed–Solomon error correction until the image can be appropriately interpreted.  The required data is then extracted from patterns that are present in both horizontal and vertical components of the image.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code 

Like other plants, Venus' Flytraps gather nutrients from gases in the air and nutrients in the soil.  However, they live in poor soil and are healthier if they get nutrients from insects.  Carnivorous plants live all over the world but the Venus Flytrap is native to select boggy areas in North and South Carolina.  Because of people's fascination with these plants, they collected many of them and they became endangered.  Venus' Flytraps today are grown in greenhouses.  The leaves of Venus' Flytrap open wide and on them are short, stiff hairs called trigger or sensitive hairs.  When anything touches these hairs enough to bend them, the two lobes of the leaves snap shut trapping whatever is inside.  The trap will shut in less than a second.  The trap doesn't close all of the way at first.  It is thought that it stays open for a few seconds in order to allow very small insects to escape because they wouldn't provide enough food.  If the object isn't food, e.g., a stone, or a nut, the trap will reopen in about twelve hours and 'spit' it out.  See pictures at https://botany.org/home/resources/the-mysterious-venus-flytrap.html   

Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and a book by Howard Ashman.  The story follows a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh.  The musical is loosely based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors.  The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Somewhere That's Green", and "Suddenly, Seymour".  The musical premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1982 before moving to the Orpheum Theatre Off-Broadway, where it had a five-year run.  It later received numerous productions in the U.S. and abroad, and a subsequent Broadway production. Because of its small cast, it has become popular with community theatre, school and other amateur groups.  The musical was also made into a 1986 film of the same name, directed by Frank Oz.  See synopsis and list of musical numbers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(musical)  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors 

August 20, 2020  In 1837, Charles Dickens moved into a narrow terraced house north of Central London. 48 Doughty Street was the novelist’s home for only 2½ years, but they were productive ones-–he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby there.  Today, the building is a museum dedicated to the author and his work.  The house has been restored to how it might have looked when Dickens lived; his well-worn desk takes pride of place in the study, and the dining room is laid out as if for a supper party.  Dan Stewart  https://money.yahoo.com/veep-creator-armando-iannucci-says-102807565.html

From:  Andrew Pressburger  Although bolshevik means majority and menshevik minority, a reversal of meaning occurred at the congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in 1903.
From:  Stephen Tolkin  In mostly British cooking usage, blitz also means to whip or puree.  Nigella Lawson uses this word almost exclusively for those activities.
From:  Norman Rabek  Then there is always the slang usage “blitzed” meaning the effect of way too much alcohol.  Usually used with a form of “get” or “am”.  AWADmailIssue 990 

Euphemism is a euphemism for lying. - Bobbie Gentry, singer and songwriter (b. 27 Jul 1944) 

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