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#119758 01/12/04 07:52 PM
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An ex-soldier speaking of colonel of his former unit:
" "Ye say Dhrumshticks is well, an' his lady tu'? I niver knew how I liked the gray garron till I was shut av him an' Asia." - "Dhrumshticks" was the nickname of the Colonel commanding Mulvaney's old regiment."

garron ['gærən]
noun a small sturdy pony bred and used chiefly in Scotland and Ireland
[ETYMOLOGY: 16th Century: from Gaelic gearran]

I'll bet he would not have called the Colonel that to his face!


#119759 01/12/04 11:16 PM
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Interesting. I wonder if the drumsticks nickname was from the vegetable known as drumstick and quite the staple in South Indian in delicious sambars. It looks like a drumstick, kind of a long okra pod. Very nutritious.



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