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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread the dog returns! (with sidepockets) #169213 07/14/07 04:03 PM Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague B bonzaialsatian OP enthusiast OP bonzaialsatian enthusiast B Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague three or so years down the line and half way through a degree later... dunno if any of you'll remember me anyway, it occurred to me that some of you might enjoy this odd old farmer's saying I came across in a BBC radio serial some time ago: "as useful as a toad with sidepockets" any idea if it's genuine? so how useful is a toad with sidepockets? and what does the toad get out of it? any more obscure agricultural sayings out there? Last edited by bonzaialsatian; 07/14/07 04:09 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the dog returns! (with sidepockets) bonzaialsatian #169219 07/14/07 10:04 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Bonzai! Welcome home. Love the toad with sidepockets. Lot better for mixed company than some others I can think of. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the dog returns! (with sidepockets) Faldage #169220 07/14/07 10:15 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass speaking of Old Farmers, and weren't we just, a subscriber sent me this yesterday: in the 'Old Farmers Almanac' by today's date [7/13] there is this quote: "cornscateous air is everywhere"...I looked first in my American Heritage dictionary and was mildly surprised not to find it there then went to my unabridged-same result- then to my compact edition of the Oxford dictionary... nothing. well, it's not in the OED either; in fact, near as I can tell, it's a nonce-word fashioned by the Old Farmer's themselves. -joe (old, anyway) friday p.s. - hi, dog! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the dog returns! (with sidepockets) tsuwm #169229 07/16/07 09:13 AM Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague B bonzaialsatian OP enthusiast OP bonzaialsatian enthusiast B Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague cornscateous... I wonder how that would be pronounced.. corn-SCA-teous... CORN-scateous... cornsca-TE-ous... cornscaCHIous... (I have wandered around the room doing that but am unable to conjure up a suitably idyllic image of cornfields due to surrounding city concrete and the sound of flatmate asking what I'm doing) strikes me as oddly uncomfortable to roll off the tongue. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: the dog returns! (with sidepockets) bonzaialsatian #169244 07/16/07 03:41 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass I had thought cornSKAYtious.. from the OFs "this term signifies warm, damp air. Though it signals ideal climatic conditions for growing corn..", one could surmise that the roots are corn + L. scatere, to bubble, gush, well, spring, or flow forth. -joe (bubblicious) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter 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 Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,317 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 583 guests, and 1 robot. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 31 A C Bowden 13 ddrinnan 1 LukeJavan8 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,534 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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