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1. MVS says:
   June 30, 2011 at 5:56 pm

   If I only knew what a spangle is… I’d go out and buy a bushel ASAP!
2. JJS says:
   June 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm

   What can you recommend in the “deeply abstruse books based on alien linguistics” category? That sounds like something I would really like.
3. Greg says:
   June 30, 2011 at 6:34 pm

   I thought it was flair, not spangles.
   dammit. anyone want to buy a whole bunch of flair?
4. John Scalzi says:
   June 30, 2011 at 6:38 pm

   JJS:

   Embassytown, by China Mieville. It’s very good.
5. Braxis says:
   June 30, 2011 at 7:09 pm

   These are Spangles.

   I’m not convinced that a humble boiled sweet can increase your interestingness enormously. Maybe your tales of how you built up a massive stock of a sweet that has been out of production for thirty years will impress?
6. cturkel says:
   June 30, 2011 at 8:32 pm

   You didn’t mention the secret sauce.
7. Sinister Duck says:
   June 30, 2011 at 8:35 pm

   @MVS:

   I’m fairly certain John means the sequin-y kinda things one might use to decorate an article of clothing, or small purse, like so: http://www.123rf.com/photo_4420368_fabric-texture-with-spangles-sequin-to-background.html

   That said, John and I both grew up in California, around the same time, and I remember the word spangle referring to a type of bracelet that was popular with girls in the ’80s. But that was a long time ago, and I might have the wrong word, or it might have just been a very regional term, or possibly a specific brand.
8. Jennifer R. Ewing says:
   June 30, 2011 at 9:31 pm

   Sinister Duck: I believe the term you’re looking for is “bangle” bracelet, not “spangle” bracelet. You can take my word for it, I was a teenager in the ’80s

   JJS:

   http://www.amazon.com/Klingon-Hamlet-William-Shakespeare/dp/0671035789/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309483800&sr=8-1

   It’s even better in the original Klingon, dontchaknow.

   :-)
9. V's Herbie says:
   June 30, 2011 at 10:05 pm

   Not spangles….

   ponder….

   Jazz hands?
10. konarosemary says:
    July 1, 2011 at 3:44 am

    Um, as in “Star Spangled Banner” perhaps?
11. James A. Brown says:
    July 1, 2011 at 9:40 am

    Good article, nothing ground-breaking to regular readers of this blog. I spotted a few typos and a massive formatting error. I don’t suppose you’d have any control over that at this point.
12. Sinister Duck says:
    July 1, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    @Jennifer R. Ewing: You know, that name occured to me, but I dismissed it, figuring that I was confusing the bracelets with the band of the same name. That’ll teach me to be suspicious of my memory; perhaps it’s better than I thought.
13. Nick H. says:
    July 22, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Woes. Finally got around to this post in my RSS feed, and the link is broke. Tried, but failed, to find the article myself. I don’t suppose you know where it is now?

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