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Page 4 of 8 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Topic Options #34062 - 07/05/01 12:31 AM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell? Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta Consuelo is an avid morel shrooner. Should I be or or ? Bingley _________________________ Bingley Top #34063 - 07/05/01 09:16 AM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell? wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear Bingley: Forget morels and truffles until you acquire a trained French truffle hound. Top #34064 - 07/05/01 09:23 AM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell? Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 ...what my sisters and I refer to as the "Deer John". Give a whole new meaning to a Deer John letter. And, if the deer has (looks like umlaut) a whole new meaning to the advertising slogan of the people that make the tractor: Nothing Runs Like a Deer(e). Top #34065 - 07/05/01 09:36 AM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell? of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park And coming back to the beginings-- i was reminded yesterday-- (a US holiday) the worms have "castings" This is such a wonderful thread-- until it started i hadn't realize i knew so many names for different types of excretement! -- and now i know even more! (i knew frass, guano, castings, pure, scat, (did we use scat yet? ) Bears make scat. _________________________ my other obsession Top #34066 - 07/05/01 10:31 AM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell? wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 And nice old ladies who don't know what the word means tell stray dogs or cats to "scat."Actually, a common country practice was to catch strays and smear them with excerement to punish owners who let them stray. Top #34067 - 07/05/01 10:50 AM Re: There you go again Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 a common country practice was to catch strays and smear them with excrement* AHD lists both (in separate entries) as Origin Unknown. This time I *will look it up in my OED! And while you're at it Dr. Bill, you might consider expunging the word dirt from your vocabulary. Not to mention moist. *According to ledasdottir, this would only work with bear excrement. (http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=32928) Top #34068 - 07/05/01 11:05 AM scat about... of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park well-- i am not sure it only goes with bears-- I have only heard it (i think?) with bears.. and until this thread started, i never even realize i knew these words.. and so far we hav avoided humans-- i taught my kids BM (bowel movement) _________________________ my other obsession Top #34069 - 07/05/01 12:48 PM Re: scat about... wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 " Dr. Bill, you might consider expunging the word dirt from your vocabulary. Not to mention moist." Dear Faldage: No bowdlerizer I. I meant that nice old ladies that used to use it would have been upset if someone told them what "scat" meant. Like my wife's grandmother who primly corrected me for saying the word "bull". She informed me that that was "a gentleman cow." Top #34070 - 07/05/01 02:40 PM Re: scat about... wow Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/25/00 Posts: 3439 Loc: New England, USA Then there is the children's book "Everyone Poops" .... Top #34071 - 07/05/01 03:24 PM Re: scat about... belMarduk Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/28/00 Posts: 2891 In the same vein, somewhat... how did a toilet come to be known as a crapola? I understand the 'crap' part but the 'ola' is a mystery to me. Top Page 4 of 8 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview 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. 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