SoCS: Count On It

Excuse me for being literal, but there are a lot of things you can count on. For example, an abacus. I had one when I was a child. I loved it and I counted on it all day long. Now I have no idea how one even works. Then there’s your fingers. This sounds simple,

SoCS: Comp

I never actually use the word ‘comp’, because I am not serious enough about competitions. Comp seems like a word for hard-core enterers, who do every prize puzzle in the weekly magazine and actually send them off in the post. I do enter occasional competitions, but usually place nowhere. Among my few minor successes is

SoCS: Page

Do you remember pagers? I’ve never seen one in real life. I think I saw them on the Prince of Bel Air or something like that. The verb page must have lost some ngrams ground when the mobile phone became commonplace. On the other hand, I don’t remember seeing page (through) as meaning ‘flick through’

Cork

Thank you to Your Daily Word Prompt for this prompt. I was born to be déclasse, underclass, cheap and/or poor; whatever you want to call it. An inherent part of my scum-of-the-earth quality is my inability to get on with corks. I can’t use a corkscrew properly; it goes in sideways, bits of cork fall