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Dr. Bill: I'll just bet that maharajah, propped up on a pile of pillows with his tinkling martini, would be the least likely to develop Weaver's Bottom. Do you suppose that particular condition brought Shakespeare to call his character Bottom the Weaver? He does make an ass of himself as the play progresses.
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Dear Slithy: you can count on it, that maharajah had a gorgeous collection of beaver bottoms.
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Actually, all of those terms, except one (coffin) were part of my previous life but two.
And I did all of those things as a humble apprentice mechanical. Then the Bottom fell out of the market with the introduction of not-so-humble non-apprentice computers ...
Printing presses up until the beginning of the 19th Century were unreliable beasts, generally using the screw principle to apply pressure to a block which impressed the type on to the paper. I suspect that block was the aforementioned coffin, but that's only a guess.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I found a long list of Colonial occupations, and picked out one: Ale Draper. =Ale house keeper.
What did "Draper" mean in this connection?
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Ale Draper. =Ale house keeper.
What did "Draper" mean in this connection?
House keeper.
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Dear Faldage: please tell us how "draper" got to mean "housekeeper"
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how "draper" got to mean "housekeeper"
From your original mention
Ale Draper. =Ale house keeper.
Dividing each side of the equation by Ale
Draper. =house keeper.
Dividing each side of the equation by .
Draper=house keeper
QED
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Excuse a tangent. When I read this ale draper term, all I could see was some drunk draped across a barrel of ale, three sheets to the wind--all three of 'em draped across the same barrel...that is, if ale came in barrels?
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Well, Jackie, I have no idea how it happens sometimes--rarely--but I was completely unaware of the fact that I'd duplicated the post till I just read the duplication today. It must have to do with my (and others') rapid-fire typing and clicking that somehow evades the "Sorry, you cannot post this post because it already exists" guy who lives inside of AWAD with his little banner on-the-ready to wave on your screen.
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Okay--can someone please tell me how it is possible to make a post that, as far as I can tell, is an exact duplicate of another? The one time I tried, and another time by accident, I got the "We cannot proceed--post already exists" page.
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