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Dear Mav: I cheerfully plead ignorance, and beg the boon of your enlightening me.
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oh Bill, I'm shocked :) Here's a representative quote from a quick googlehaul: "A Man of Kent by birth., which means I was born east of the River Medway as opposed to a Kentish Man who comes from the west of the river. Legend says, the Men of Kent resisted William the Conqueror more stoutly than the Kentish Men, who weakly surrendered. Afterwards the bravery of the Men of Kent made them proud while Kentish Men were believed to be weak-minded, and so a keen rivalry developed...." http://dmoz.org/profiles/ddrj.html
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Dear MAV: the dictionary of phrase and fable I am mining had a similar bit of information
about Kent. I was unaware that anybody in AWADtalk would be interested, so I did no
select it to post, nor remember it. I have no idea where the Medway is. Which side
did the wellendowed lad inhabit?
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Don't know, Bill - but I guess whichever side of the river he came from, he went over to the other side ;)
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What a trajectory to his ejaculation!
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What a trajectory to his ejaculation!Ha! The most miniscule of sneezes when set alongside panspermia.  Back to Kent, here's a nice little overview (including a bit of history) of "The Garden of England": http://www.angelfire.com/tn/goldengreen/manokent.html
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Well, I adore my man Kent  , and thank you, shona/fisk, for your informative link which said, among other things, The division may have arisen when the Jutes, who settled in Thanet over 1,500 years ago, moved into the area we know as Kent, calling on part East Centingas and the other West Centingas. There have been two Kent dioceses since AD605 - Canterbury (East Kent) and Rochester (West Kent). . Now I have a couple more questions (surprise, surprise). It also said Kent has ...there is the well-worn image of the White Cliffs of Dover, the hopfields, oasthouses, blossoming orchards, attractive timber and pantile houses .... What are oasthouses and pantile houses, please?
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Oast houses! oo, oo i know!
Oast is a classic crossword puzzle word! Oast is the name given to the ovens in which hops are dried. Hops are the last crop of the year for the migrant farmers (that bit comes from being forced at some point to read Tess of the D'ubervilles. (i detest Hardy!)
Hops are used to flavor and preserve beer.
now as for the Pantile houses.. you need someone else!
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Mav:
Yes, there's a difference twixt the Kentish and the man of Kent, but that pales into insignificance when one considers the cowardly Viords. When the Picts marched into their lands they rolled over on their backs and exposed their bellies without even lifting a finger. So cowardly were they that to this day we say: one Pict is worth a thousand Viords.
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Evidently a place name, but all I could find was:
Fairfax Gallery - set in the heart of the historic Pantiles. Features contemporary art.
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