Verb: sap:*
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desperanceInterestingly, pot-lids fresh out of the oven tend to be almost exactly as hot as the pots themselves. That might be worth bearing in mind.
*Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford used to have polite notices here and there, headed Verb: Sap: and saying, as near as memory retains it, "In former and happier times, we were accustomed to University tutors coming in at the end of the academic year with long lists of those books they had taken but unaccountably neglected to pay for. Alas, we can no longer be so trusting..." and so on, to the obvious conclusion. I really enjoyed that notice; so much more cultured than the bald "Shoplifters will be prosecuted"...
*Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford used to have polite notices here and there, headed Verb: Sap: and saying, as near as memory retains it, "In former and happier times, we were accustomed to University tutors coming in at the end of the academic year with long lists of those books they had taken but unaccountably neglected to pay for. Alas, we can no longer be so trusting..." and so on, to the obvious conclusion. I really enjoyed that notice; so much more cultured than the bald "Shoplifters will be prosecuted"...