ATDTDA Dally - Dahlia

[Glenn Scheper]

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Definitions of dally on the Web:

Dally roping is a style of roping in which the roper throws a half hitch of rope around the saddle horn after a catch is made. ...
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When roping, wrapping the rope counter-clockwise around the saddle horn to hold the animal or object roped.
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behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" 
waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" 
chat up: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" 
consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" 
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Definitions of dahlia on the Web:

The root system has several tubers attached to a center point - Enormous variety of sizes, shapes, and colors
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any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia 
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Dahlia is a genus of bushy, summer- and autumn-flowering, tuberous perennial plants native to Mexico, where they are the national flower. ...
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"Dahlia" is a single released by X Japan on February 26, 1996. It would later become the title track of the band's last album and (as of 2007) Yoshiki Hayashi's last composition in his signature blend of speed metal and symphonic rock. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia (song)

Dahlia (1970-2001) was an American-bred Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who won major races in France, England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. She was extremely popular with racing fans because she frequently competed with male horses. 
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Dahlia is the fifth and last album by the Japanese band X Japan and was released on November 4, 1996. It is largely comprised of ballads, with few tracks (i.e. "Scars" and the title track) retaining the band's heavier musicial traits seen on previous releases. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia (album)

        surfing Dahlia

Bridging the worlds of high art and true crime, Exquisite Corpse presents a 
unique perspective on the most notorious unsolved murder case of the twentieth 
century--the bizarre 1947 killing of Elizabeth Short, better known as the Black 
Dahlia murder.Unlike previous books on the Black Dahlia, Exquisite Corpse 
provides a detailed and compelling explanation for the unusual nature of this 
gruesome killing. Exquisite Corpse reveals, through visual comparisons and 
historical research, what seem to be profound connections between surrealist art 
and the Black Dahlia case--both before and after the murder.
  -- http://www.amazon.com/Exquisite-Corpse-Surrealism-Dahlia-Murder/dp/0821258192
  Amazon.com: Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder: Books: Mark Nelson,Sarah Hudson 

James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia is a fictionalized account of the real life 
murder of Elizabeth Short. Short's body was found in an abandoned field near the 
famous Hollywood sign on January 15, 1947. Despite a long and public 
investigation, the murder remains unsolved to this day. It is one of the most 
famous unsolved cases in American history.
  -- http://www.wikisummaries.org/The_Black_Dahlia
  The Black Dahlia - WikiSummaries, free book summaries

The newer varieties win our admiration as soon as we see them. Should you insist 
that the Dahlia is very formal and stiff we should answer that the ones to which 
you refer are perhaps stiff because they were carefully bred for regularity and 
symmetry, and you would look upon them as triumphs of the breeder's art if you 
knew that the modern varieties have been evolved from several wild Mexican 
species.
  -- http://www.homegardenguides.com/wiki/Dahlia
  Dahlia

Any of the 12 - 20 species of tuberous-rooted herbaceous plants that 
make up the genus Dahlia, in the composite family, native to higher elevations 
of Mexico and Central America. The leaves of most are segmented and toothed or 
cut. About six species have been bred for cultivation as ornamental flowers. 
Wild species have both disk and ray flowers in the flowering heads, but many 
varieties of ornamentals, such as the common garden dahlia (D. bipinnata), have 
shortened ray flowers. Dahlia flowers may be white, yellow, red, or purple.
  -- http://www.answers.com/topic/dahlia
  dahlia: Definition and Much More from Answers.com


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Glenn Scheper
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