[HPFGU-OTChatter] re: The same language with different words / those shirts / euthanasia

[Lee Truslow]

My grandfather always said that the "A" in "A-shirt" stood for "athletic." 


To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.comFrom: catlady at wicca.netDate: Sun, 4 May 2008 18:15:55 +0000Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] re: The same language with different words / those shirts / euthanasia




Carol wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36269>:<< I was about seven or eight and encountered the word "bureau" in anovel I was reading, so I asked my mother what "burroo" meant. >>Not ignoring your funny anecdote, but reminded that when I was aboutthat age, my mother told me of a story resembling 'Pigs is Pigs' butmuch less famous, about a man who ordered a burro shipped by train.When he went to pick it up, the train agent apologized for having losthis furniture and couldn't understand why this jackass wasn't on themanifest.<< arcadia doors >>??????????Geoff wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36271>:<< <exits stage left muttering lift/elevator, bonnet/hood,sweater/jumper, dustbin/trash can trainers/sneakers until voice fadesin the distance> >>Which lanes on a road are the 'inside' lanes?Geoff wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36307>:<< Sometimes also called a singlet if it's the sleeveless type such asrunners wear. >>Singlet! That's the word Carol is looking for! It is an uncommon wordin USA and always strikes me as a quaint Britishism, and as crying outfor some kind of pun with 'doublet'.Geoff wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36311>:<< Although they're not really part of the scene nowadays they didcome back into fashion for a while some years ago for a while and werereferred to as... tank tops. >>I seem to recall we had this thread a few years ago when Percy wasstated to be wearing a woolen tank top. I think that must have beenGoF, as after that, Percy was off-stage until the just before the end.Kemper wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36323>:<< (The bagginess was a style that, I think, was originally a lookthat came from hand-me-down pants from big brothers to littlebrothers.) >>Too-big jeans with no belt was a style that originally came fromuniforms issued to inmates at California Youth Authority prisons.Belts are not allowed because they can be used as weapons. But long,long ago I read an opinion piece by a fashion historian (no idea ifshe was any good at it) making a comparison to zoot suits and sayingthat clothing styles that consume lots of fabric are a sign ofindividual optimism in an economically prosperous time...Carol wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36363>:<< I'd never heard the term "A-shirt" till we started this discussion.At least, unlike "wifebeater," it's in the dictionary! >>I'd never heard the term "A-shirt" before either. The only on-linedictionary that <http://www.onelook.com/> found for it was Wikipedia,which did not give an etymology. T-shirts are named from their shape,but A-shirts don't strike me as looking like the letter A.Alex wrote in<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36393>:<< "Put to sleep" is a ridiculous term meant to make it "OK" to killanimals. They just go to sleep. Yeah, right. They are killed. Rathernastily. Go to your local pound if you do not know what goes on there. >>Talking about the vet's office, not the pound. Obi, Sasha, Nan, andPixy were euthanized. Fancy and Cinnamon died at home. I was with eachof them when they died. 






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