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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Why? #124370 03/04/2004 4:48 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia stales old hand stales old hand Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 866 Perth, Western Australia 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? stales Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Why? stales 03/02/2004 11:45 PM Re: Why? wwh 03/03/2004 12:24 AM Re: Why? Buffalo Shrdlu 03/03/2004 12:52 AM Pick peas, not cotton Father Steve 03/03/2004 2:09 AM All we are saying consuelo 03/03/2004 2:11 AM Re: All we are saying dxb 03/03/2004 9:00 AM Re: All we are saying RhubarbCommando 03/03/2004 10:11 AM Re: All we are saying dxb 03/03/2004 10:34 AM Re: All we are saying Jackie 03/03/2004 4:43 PM Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread TEd Remington 03/03/2004 4:53 PM Re: Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread Buffalo Shrdlu 03/03/2004 10:14 PM Dough Re Mi grapho 03/04/2004 2:58 AM The Hemp Bread story Father Steve 03/03/2004 7:18 PM pea pod chips belMarduk 03/03/2004 10:38 PM Re: gyproc AnnaStrophic 03/03/2004 10:52 PM Re: KAOS Buffalo Shrdlu 03/03/2004 10:57 PM Re: KAOS belMarduk 03/03/2004 11:02 PM Re: gyproc wwh 03/03/2004 11:05 PM Re: gyproc AnnaStrophic 03/03/2004 11:07 PM Re: gyproc Jackie 03/04/2004 2:02 AM Re: All we are saying TEd Remington 03/03/2004 4:37 PM Re: All we are saying RhubarbCommando 03/04/2004 9:27 AM Ticking away grapho 03/04/2004 12:44 PM Re: Ticking away RhubarbCommando 03/04/2004 1:22 PM Re: Ticking away grapho 03/04/2004 1:46 PM Re: Ticking away RhubarbCommando 03/04/2004 2:32 PM Re: Ticking away grapho 03/04/2004 3:06 PM On the other hand grapho 03/04/2004 3:44 PM Re: On the other hand RhubarbCommando 03/04/2004 3:49 PM pretty face grapho 03/05/2004 3:47 AM Re: pretty face Capfka 03/05/2004 11:16 AM Re: pretty face Jackie 03/05/2004 12:44 PM Re: pretty face grapho 03/05/2004 12:54 PM judgement AnnaStrophic 03/05/2004 12:58 PM Asynchronous City grapho 03/05/2004 1:08 PM Re: pretty face Jackie 03/05/2004 1:38 PM Re: Why? stales 03/04/2004 4:48 AM Re: Why? consuelo 03/04/2004 4:56 AM Re: Why? Jackie 03/05/2004 2:03 PM Pick and choose grapho 03/05/2004 9:18 PM Re: Pick and choose Jackie 03/05/2004 11:23 PM Re: Pick and choose grapho 03/06/2004 12:26 AM Re: Pick and choose of troy 03/06/2004 3:17 AM Re: Pick and choose Bingley 03/06/2004 7:34 AM Re: Pick and choose grapho 03/06/2004 10:33 AM Re: Pick and choose Jackie 03/06/2004 1:44 PM Re: Pick and choose grapho 03/06/2004 2:05 PM Re: Pick and choose Bingley 03/06/2004 11:18 PM Re: Pick and choose grapho 03/07/2004 4:15 PM Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,281 Members9,208 Most Online4,606 Sep 17th, 2025 Newest Members JerryC, blvd, Tony Hood, Wood Delivery, Forix Richard 9,208 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 25 A C Bowden 7 JerryC 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,136 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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