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There's a Plum Nelly, Georgia. I remember going there as a kid. It's in the foothills of the Appalachians. Here's a site that splains the meaning in its opening paragraph (it's a commercial pottery site, but hey, I ain't selling nuthin): http://www.lookoutmountainpottery.com/
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great name for a dessert though, served with ice cream probably. I know, I know, no food threads.
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Carpal Tunnel
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great name for a dessert though, served with ice cream probably
and made with wild beach plums, no doubt!
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I was in Trenton and Lafayette Georgia last year and I didn't even know Plum Nelly was there! *sigh* for all the lost opportunities...
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For the sake thoroughness I would point out plum(b) can mean 'utterly' or 'totally' in pretty much any situation in British slang (e.g. 'We're plum out of honey'). A common usage of plum (without the 'b') is as an especially desirable position, assignment, or reward (e.g. an ambassadorship granted as a political plum.); not sure how that one came came about though.
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Re:A common usage of plum (without the 'b') is as an especially desirable position, assignment, or reward
Yes, like:
Little jack horner, who sat in corner,
Eating his christmas pie,
He stuck in his thumb, and pulled out a plum(b)
And said "What a good boy am I!"
(but i have read that nursery rhyme is not that old, and Jack Horner--really was a political appointtee, who helped himself to some lands, in the time of George III.)
and We're plum out of honey' would be just as common in parts of US as in UK.
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