#47775
11/20/2001 2:04 PM
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Rhuby:
Do check out the link I posted above--there are many meanings for slew--a slew of 'em. I think you'll enjoy the reading.
Best regards,
WW
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#47776
11/20/2001 3:43 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Yes - I did so as soon as my post appeared and I found yours above it! Sorry to duplicate, everyone! Trouble is, I was working from thread mode, which I am not very used to, and hadn't noticed that there was a later post that the one I answered! I must say that, personally, I am much more comfortable when I'm flat. 
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#47777
11/21/2001 2:12 AM
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personally, I am much more comfortable when I'm flat. Well, I like you in a flat pos...naw, I ain't goin' there!
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#47778
11/21/2001 4:04 AM
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nipping is undesirable in sheep dogs. I wondered about the meaning of the name "heeler". Australian Cattle Dogs do bite
which makes sense: cattle, being far bigger than sheep, cannot be cowed by a less aggressive dog
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#47779
11/21/2001 4:13 AM
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an addition to Dub-Dub's extensive list is the ward heeler, a staple of Chicago politics: http://bartleby.com/61/97/W0029700.html: ward heeler NOUN: Informal A worker for the ward organization of a political machine.hhhmmmmm ... might have to change my screenname to "wordheeler".
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#47780
11/21/2001 4:29 AM
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Filet of sole, anyone? And how about Charlie Chaplin's classic shoe-eating scene in (ed.)"The Gold Rush."(I stand corrected)  is that the right flick?
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#47781
11/21/2001 12:33 PM
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Warning: food post.
Then, of course, there's the traditional pickled pigs' feet.
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#47782
11/21/2001 12:38 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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to say nothing of boiled cow's heels!
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#47783
11/21/2001 3:14 PM
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Trotters = pickled hooves
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#47784
11/21/2001 4:43 PM
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Now this is a change of scene: Culinary Pediments....
Isn't the pediment something like a little roof that goes up outside a building--like a pediment above a door?
I can't liu right now 'cause I'm on my way home for Thanksgiving break, hallelujah!
But ped is bound to come from foot--and yet here's this architectural structure that is well above the usual place for the feet. Interesting.....
So, a culinary pediment could be a chef's hat...oui? Do you follow my thinking here?
Best regards and happy Thanksgiving to all who are celebrating it!
WW
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#47785
11/21/2001 6:17 PM
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Keiva - That would be "The Gold Rush".
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#47786
11/21/2001 7:36 PM
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Musick, speaking of "The Gold Rush" reminds me of a miner, 49-er and his daughter, Clementine.
She had the distinction of wearing herring boxes for shoes before succumbing to the waters...
GlubGlub
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#47787
11/21/2001 7:37 PM
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"That would be "The Gold Rush". I can still remember Chaplin delicately nibbling the nails from the shoe.
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#47788
11/22/2001 2:53 AM
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Definitely delicate, wwh--you couldn't hear a single crunch.
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#47789
11/22/2001 3:25 AM
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Long ago, in a college musical, there were a few verses about "footprints on the dashboard upside down'.
A whole bunch of URLs about it, all plagiarised from the original.
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#47791
11/22/2001 2:56 PM
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An American literature professor from decades ago said that there was a Puritan sitting on the back seat of every car parked on Lovers' Lane. Seems an appropriate comment on Thanksgiving Day and these dashing footprints...
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#47792
11/25/2001 9:46 PM
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old hand
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pediment
Yes, (in temple language) a pediment is the triangular area between the frieze and the roof. I suspected that it was so named because that's the area where relief sculptures were generally placed and the feet of the sculptures would be on the bottom of the pediment. Also, in Etruscan temples, statues were placed on the roof, so their feet would be on top of the pediment.
Apparently, this is wrong. M-W says that it's an alteration of periment, which is possibly derived from pyramid.
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#47793
11/25/2001 10:01 PM
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Jazz, Your theory was interesting, at least. And if the freize presented fauns, trolls, and such, it would have been an impediment on which they rested their frolicsome little feet.
Dub
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#47794
11/25/2001 11:35 PM
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In the early days of wine making, the grapes were crushed by the (?) dainty feet of virgins. I wonder that there was not a shortage of qualified treaders. And just as girls painted their legs due to stocking shortage in WWII, the girls must have had colorful underpinnings when they finished.
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#47795
11/25/2001 11:40 PM
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as we come to an end--or at least an interlude, since replies to this post should be posted in a new thread, let us not forget the humble footman.
roman superstition had it that it was bad luck to cross a threshhold with ones left foot. to make sure this didn't happen, them that had the where with all, had footmen at their doors..to assist any guest in, and to make sure all who entered entered with the right foot!
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