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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:31:03 CST
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- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
-
- We find my favorite candy. Normally they're not in boxes -- they're sold
- individually in wrappers. They're chocolate with caramel and something soft
- inside. Some people think they taste kind of like Snickers, but I don't.
- Snickers are nasty tasting compared to Milky Ways.
-
- > Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
- > "the Panhandle" refer to?
-
- It seems odd to me to go through the Texas Panhandle between Louisiana
- and N.M. I guess if you were going to northern N.M. you might go through
- part of the Panhandle. It's the part of Texas that pokes up between
- Oklahoma and northern N.M.
-
- > "Indians in heel-worn cowboy boots": what does "heel-worn" mean here?
-
- I guess it means that the heels are worn down -- probably unevenly -- i.e.,
- part of the heel is thicker than another part.
-
- > "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
- > people doing what to each other?
-
- I'll leave this one for somebody with better skills at graphic description.
-
- > "A cop on the pad": a corrupt cop?
-
- Irritable? (I've never heard the expression -- the ? indicates that's a
- guess.)
-
-
- > "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
- > what are BBs?
-
- Small bullets used in BB guns -- guns children play with. They are usually
- played with by older children since they can be dangerous -- BBs can put out
- eyes. I'm trying to think of something to compare BBs with in size but am
- so far blank. They're a little smaller than whole pepper corns.
-
- > "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
- > does this idiom convey to you?
-
- Putting him down.
-
- > Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
-
- Something for colds, I think. I've heard of it all my life and have
- seen it in stores, but I'm not really sure what it's used for.
-
- > Lum 'n' Abner land: what is the reference?
-
- Some of the media experts on the list can answer this one better than I
- can. Lum 'n Abner were on the radio, weren't they?
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
-