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Consuelo is an avid morel shrooner. Should I be or or ? Bingley
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Dear Bingley: Forget morels and truffles until you acquire a trained French truffle hound.
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...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).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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)
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" 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."
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Then there is the children's book "Everyone Poops" ....
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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.
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