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Hey, and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and that's all that needs mentioning today, because it's just us, so this is short stuff.

That's right.

And by the way, I wanted to thank you for sending over that beautiful nosegay of wilted white roses delivered upside down with a ribbon to the left.

Well, may I ask where on your chest are you wearing it?

Near my bodice.

In the center?

Right in the center, baby.

Well, I guess we're good friends then i can live with that

although i'm not sure what i was saying with the whole thing it's kind of yeah i'd have to get out a

code decoder book or whatever well they had those chuck um what we're talking about is

floriography and there were a lot of floriography books because it turns out floreography was a huge deal in the Victorian Regency areas.

I guess between a couple of decades on either side of the 19th and 20th century divide, the DMZ of those centuries, as it were,

it was really popular to send unspoken messages using flowers.

That's right. Unspoken because at the time in the UK, and parts of the U.S., obviously in

Europe, in certain, you know, high societies mainly, you could not speak these things aloud a lot

of times. It was untoward.

So you had to have a coded way of talking to each other.

And if you're thinking like, oh, yeah, you send flowers to someone and that means something.

It goes deep.

I mean, it is literally a code.

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