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Jan 31, 2019 02:23PM
Everybody, to keep warm.
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from the valley of the jolly Green Giant (and his sidekick, Sprout)
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Gregory Hines and Mr. ballet Baryshnikov.(White Nights) I loved this movie.
Ruth wrote: "What the horse said"The neighs have it.
"Thanks for the buggy ride." That was the parting phrase of my great uncle whenever he was chauffeured anyplace.I have a question for you experts I could not ascertain from M W. Where did this definition or name of a large wheeled 2 person one horse carriage come from? There is a place called Bug in Germany and there may be an insinuation of being small fast and black like a bug. Anyone?
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The horse carriage buggy is thought to derive from the old meaning of bug -- "a specter or ghost," often called a BOGEY. It seems that the light carriages were called "bogies" (which later became buggie) because they were so fast that they scared people out of their wits.
"Bogie" - also the source of our "boogey-man"The "bogies" were the specters thought to be trapped in bogs. The boundaries/corners of communities - parishes - often met in bogs and marshy areas. When a criminal was murdered (usually deservedly so), the people would not dessicrate the graveyard by buring him there, but deep in the bog instead. The idea was that when the murdered man's specter - the bogie - rose to avenge his death, it was confused by the multitude of parishes - it didn't know which one his killer lived in, so it couldn't haunt him.
As usual, my brain is full of curious trash and trivia. (One of my mottoes: If something is important, it's written down somewhere.) Actually, way back in high school, I did a term paper on preserved "bog people," mummified by the acid content of bog water. That's how I know this stuff.
Sally wrote: ""Bogie" - also the source of our "boogey-man"..."Does anyone know (or care!) how we came to call nasal mucus "boogies?" (Even as I write this, I have a shuddery, TMI feeling about asking ...) If no one answers, I won't mind. If anyone wants me to delete the post, I'll do that, too!
'snotin my vast storehouse of useless information.
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our kids put beans up our nose but they didn't sprout
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I'm built upside down: my nose runs and my feet smell.
give me some men who are stout hearted men
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I think it was a mourning dress for tea at four A M.
Who's been sitting in my chair?
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