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A bit of trivia about today's wird
Thule (ancient area), name generally given by the ancients to the most northerly part of Europe known to them. Pytheas of Massalía (present-day Marseille), a Greek navigator of the 4th century BC, was the first to mention the island of Thule, stating that it was a six-day voyage north of Britain and that the midsummer sun never set there. It is not known, however, whether Pytheas ever reached Thule. In antiquity Thule was considered Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands, but modern scholars believe that Pytheas may have been referring to either Iceland or northern Norway. The Romans used the phrase Ultima Thule to denote the most distant unknown land.
Thule for 1
1 among the ancients, the northernmost region of the world, possibly taken to be Norway, Iceland, Jutland, etc.: also ultima Thule
2 Eskimo settlement on the NW coast of Greenland: pop. c. 1,000: site of U.S. air base
Notice that the name of the Air Force Base in N.W. Greenland is "tooley"
I learned the word in German, from Goethe's poem about the Icelandic king whose wife gave him a golden goblet. "die Augen täten ihm über, so oft er trank daraus" so I always pronounced it with a "t" and never before heard of its being pronounced with "th" as in "three".
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Orange juice without breakfast is like sunshine without a day.
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I'd say your post was a little wird but I'd be afraid that you'd get þore.*
*With apologies to the Mac þless.
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Dear Faldage: I'd say you should drink your orange juice in your birthday suit on the highest point in Greenland, but you might get Þore.
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Just checked my birthday suit, Dr. Bill. They ain' no orange juice in it.
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This finally explains why my great-aunt Talitha always used the word "toolies" when she was talking about the boondocks, hinterlands, middle of nowhere, BFE, etc...
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Fiberbabe's great-aunt Talitha always used the word "toolies" when she was talking about the boondocks.
Did she call cows by saying, "Boss, boss, bossie!" (Latin, bos, bovis) or pigs by saying, "Sooey, sooey!" (Latin sus, suis)?
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Maybe ancient aunt Talitha was old enough to call cows "cy" or even "kine".
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"Toolies" is alive and well in mid-Michigan, as are boonies, boondocks, etc. I wonder, do more urban areas have multiple words to describe cityscapes which aren't as commonly used here in the toolies?
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re: do more urban areas have multiple words to describe cityscapes which aren't as commonly used here in the toolies?
well, there is the all purpose--"out of towner"-- good for anyone from NJ to ND.. and within the city?
Uptown (as in Uptown Girl-- the song) and downtown, and in NY-- the derogitory "bridge and tunnel crowd" - and "from the boroughs" -- but we also distiguish between west siders-- (tend to be liberal, outspoken, and well read) and east siders (money'd, conservative, and superficial), urban homesteaders-- (good) and gentrifiers (bad).. many neighborhoods have "characteristics", and just saying you're from chelsea-- or the villiage, or alphabet city, or SoHo, or DUMBO, or TriBeca-- can says it all.
Boston has it neighborhoods, as does Philly, and Baltimore..
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