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Topic Options #39654 - 08/26/01 04:00 PM Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #39655 - 08/26/01 06:49 PM Re: Amazing! Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Well, gosh-a-mighty, sure I knew that. Many of the former soldiers, as old men, married very young women. Shoot--a couple of months ago, I interviewed an 82-year-old lady for our church newsletter, and she said her FATHER told her he remembered seeing Civil War soldiers marching by his home when he was a child. Still and all, it was 140 years ago. Pretty remarkable. Nice music on the site, too! Top #39656 - 08/26/01 07:55 PM Re: Amazing! wow Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/25/00 Posts: 3439 Loc: New England, USA Ok! I am 72 and when I was about 10 or 11 I went to a Fourth of July parade with my parents and I distinctly recall my Dad pointing out veterans of the Civil War passing by in a bunting-draped convertable as the band played "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Remember in that war, soldiers were sometimes as young as 12-years-old (drummer boys particularly.) You do the math, my brain's all squiffy. Top #39657 - 08/26/01 08:28 PM Re: squiffy Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Ok, you made me look it up! Found it in a March 28th Miscellany thread that I refuse to copy the name of. Looks like sarawhyler used it first, though since Search comes up in Threaded Mode, I couldn't tell for sure. Top #39658 - 08/26/01 11:37 PM Re: squiffy tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass in British slang it means intoxicated; in Australian slang it means askew (according to our friends at OED). "But o' course he was blind squiffy when he wrote the paper. I hope you explained that?" said Stalky. -Kipling "I never associated it with an orgy, a term I felt to imply a Roman profusion of grapes, wine, buttocks, breasts, marble chaises-longues, and squiffy laurel crowns." -G. Melly Rum, Bum & Concertina http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=25588 Top #39659 - 08/27/01 03:53 AM squiffy as askew belligerentyouth old hand Registered: 12/20/00 Posts: 1055 Loc: Berlin >in Australian slang [squiffy] means askew I've heard it used in this sense before, but skew-whiff is far more common. Top #39660 - 08/27/01 04:02 AM Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #39661 - 08/27/01 08:07 AM Re: Amazing! of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park my ex husband's grandmother died about 10 years ago, age 103. My children had known their great grandmother well-- her father was a one legged surviver of Andersonville prison, who returned to norther NH-- (about 60 mile /1 hour's drive) north of Mt Washington-- and resumed a live as a farmer, and father another 6 or 7 children..(for a total of 13) This area of NH has hard rocky soil, and as short a growing season as any where in US.. with frost recorded as late at July. my kids grew up hearing from great grandma, stories of her father, and her childhood..for them, the civil war didn't seem so long ago though at first, they where confused-- Great grand ma spoke of "Pa" losing his leg in the WAR, and didn't know which war. _________________________ my other obsession Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8423 Members 16 Forums 13686 Topics 209740 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members teepee, smoothcriminal86, janbra, junebug, Stephen A 8423 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 37 Guests and 3 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 86 jenny jenny 68 wofahulicodoc 52 endymion6 45 BranShea 35 Rhubarb Commando 29 Buffalo Shrdlu 19 zmjezhd 16 Jackie 16 Faldage 14 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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