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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 #34062 - 07/05/01 04:31 AM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell?   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Consuelo is an avid morel shrooner. Should I be or or ? Bingley Bingley #34063 - 07/05/01 01:16 PM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell?   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Bingley: Forget morels and truffles until you acquire a trained French truffle hound. #34064 - 07/05/01 01:23 PM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell?   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 ...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). #34065 - 07/05/01 01:36 PM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell?   Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 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 #34066 - 07/05/01 02:31 PM Re: What's brown and sounds like a bell?   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 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. #34067 - 07/05/01 02:50 PM Re: There you go again   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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) #34068 - 07/05/01 03:05 PM scat about...   Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 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 #34069 - 07/05/01 04:48 PM Re: scat about...   Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 " 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." #34070 - 07/05/01 06:40 PM Re: scat about...   Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 wow Carpal Tunnel wow   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA Then there is the children's book "Everyone Poops" .... #34071 - 07/05/01 07:24 PM Re: scat about...   Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 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. Page 4 of 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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. 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