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How positively oxymoronic -- the more you eat the hungrier you get!
That's not oxymoronic, TEd. That's moronic.
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Wow - from slaving in the fields to petrophagy in less than 10 steps. Gotta love AWAD!!!
To add to the ideas on cotton picking; I noted a reference somewhere to cotton pickings; the leavings / lowest grade of the cotton crop. I imagine them to be the cotton equivalent of daggy wool.
Another potential source of the term praps?
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Praps. BTW, the answer to Why? is because. 
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And he gave it to them, of course, since there's no present like the thyme.
You are correct, TEd - the Lord of the Manor was also a sage. (The fact that he was married to Lady Rosemary has nothing to do with the case.)
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Re Leaning Tower clocktower -- after all, what's the use in having an inclination if you haven't got the time?True. But will they have to set the clock ahead? Time could be ticking against the tilt. This would make it a Leaning Tock Clocktower.  Moral: When time is ticking against you, lean the other way.
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A clock in such a position will, at the very least, put some sense into N.F.Simpson's One Way Pendulum
(EDIT At least, it could do - depends which way the clock is set into the otwer, ackershally)
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depends which way the clock is set into the towerAgreed. If you want to set the clock on time, you'll have to set it ahead. Time heals all wounds. But, sometimes, you have to give it a hand.
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I'll give a hand to anyone who's in the movement.
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I'll give a hand to anyone who's in the movement
As will I, but he can't expect a handout if his hand is in the works.
On a more scientific note:
When time is ticking away from the perpendicular, allow a minute for each degree.
This is known as the Law of Chronological Inflection [or "chronoeccentricity", for short]
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I'll give a hand to anyone who's in the movement
On the other hand, this sounds like a case of the right hand in the wrong place, in which case the left hand doesn't know what the minute hand is really doing.
When the minute hand is out of joint, the movement is only a second away from serious trouble.
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