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lil  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately

    the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.
smellsmocks? I can only imagine. - a notable list of lowlifers. Suttree's defence sounds like my mayor (Toronto's Rob Ford)'s defense for smoking crack: "probably in one of my drunken stupors."