Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 07:40:09 -0700
Title: Frank's Pip Troubles

Bikers is again reboant with Oscar's light touch and blazing speed
on the metal piano.  The lights are dimmed over the crowd with
illuminated Oscar playing away.  The piano has spar inlaid
on its sides and top so that as the lights move Bikers appears to be
diamond-studded as each facet creates another colour in the metallic bar.
*spar n [LG; akin to OE spaerstan gypsum, spaeren of plaster] (1581):
any of various nonmetallic usu. cleavable and lustrous minerals .

Vern is using an old pool cue to move the lights above Oscar.
Usually Jake takes charge but on this evening he is in the backroom
tending to his sick Fisher Lovebird, Frank. The bird sounds as if it has
a lisp plus Oscar found some pip in Frank's drinking water.
*pip n [ME pippe, fr. MD (akin to OHG pfiffiz), fr.
(assumed) VL pipita, alter. of L pituita phlegm, pip; perh. akin
to Gk pitys pine--more at pine] (15c) 1 a: a disorder of a bird
marked by formation of a scale or crust on the tongue b: the
scale or crust of this disorder.

Whenever Frank tries to say "hi" to Jake all he can do is emit a bit
of a pip.
*pip n [imit.] (1907) chiefly Brit: a short high-pitched tone.

Poor Frank! Has pip and is only capable of pips.  His eyes are still
bright though, like the shiney black pips on a new pair of dice.
*pip n [origin unknown] (1604) 1 a: one of the dots used on
dice and dominoes to indicate numerical value b: spot 2c 2 a:
spot, speck b: spike 6a; also: blip.


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