|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Dear wofahulicodoc: Wallace Nutting's book says it means: "I fish on my side, you fish on your side, Nobody shall fish in the middle." What's your version? Edit: just to be mischievous, I checked and this is a YART of a post I made back in April. I am deeply wounded. Sob,sob! http://makeashorterlink.com/?T5ED62FC1
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,561 Likes: 1
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,561 Likes: 1 |
(I think that's the same thread my reference points to...and I haven't come up with anything better that that since then.)
We yart together !
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
Give me the old fraternity grip.
(Actually there were few fraternities at our almamammy, and I suspect wofahumicodoc
regrets it as little as I do. I still get a chuckle out of FDR getting blackbadded by Hasty Pudding.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,692
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,692 |
Stone milk?
Nice one!
I Googled stone milk on a whim and discovered milkstone and Texas Correctional Industries who make a product for removing it. TCI had a hazardous substances sheet for their product on their site that included symptoms that you might develop from “Ova Exposure” to it. A funny typo! Makes you wonder how or where the stuff might be applied.
dxb.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
and no, it doesn't mean what you heard it means
I have problems with someone's saying that it doesn't mean what we've always heard it means without being able to come up with an alternative. At least they could say something like, "'I fish on my side of the lake...' is 'lemporabasip...'".
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13,858 |
I wonder what the Indians had for fishing tackle.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,561 Likes: 1
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,561 Likes: 1 |
...At least they could say something like, "'I fish on my side of the lake...' is 'lemporabasip...'".
Hey, you casting aspersions on my orthography? (What's the emoticon for mock outrage?)"lemporabasip" is very close to "improbable sp."  For an undocumented, maybe even grudging, refutation of the You-fish-on-your-side theory, see http://users.net1plus.com/websterpd/webster_lake.htmat the end of the last paragraph...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
"lemporabasip" is very close to "improbable sp."
And I thought I was just spewing out some random phonemic groups.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
Looks like not so much a refutation of the translation per se, as it is a condemnation of it as being too cutesy.
I had a friend time back way back in college who knew the lake from his boyhood and said that it was normally referred to as Lake Ugh.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,368
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
715
guests, and
0
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
