9615.THERE'S A MAN IN THE HALLWAY X

THERE'S A MAN IN 

THE HALLWAY X

And this isn't any old hotel.

Certain words have always

driven me nuts : Like 'surfeit'.

I always thought it should mean

a lack of, or when you run out

of something. But, no, it means

'to excess.' Having an overflow

of. I ask you, isn't that weird?

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Another one is ersatz. I thinking

meaning 'fake.' It's from the old

German, meaning, 'in place of.'

And another one : halcyon. I spent

half my life thinking it was 'halycon.' 

I even said it that way  -  big joke 

that's on me. Ha.

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Not that these were necessarily words

you'd use everyday anyhow. Like, one

time, at a toll booth, I tried it: Here's

my ersatz token. I used to make these

fakes back in my halcyon days; had
a surfeit of these, but no more.