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auntblabby
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18 Aug 2020, 6:02 am
18 Aug 2020, 8:07 am
Communication euphemism for noise pollution
Loyalty euphemism for bias
18 Aug 2020, 8:53 am
auntblabby wrote:
SO YOU THINK IT'S BEEN A HOT SUMMER?
Pity the folks in Nebraska, where it's been so hot, farmers have had to feed their chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. Talk about hot - an Iowa farmer says the sun was so intense one day, his cornfield exploded into fluffy white clouds of popcorn. His cattle thought it was snowing and froze solid on the spot.
Sure, everyone complains about the weather, but one man has finally decided to do something about it. Fred Pfister, an English professor at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., has compiled a list of tall weather tales - he calls them "weather windies" - that he's heard on his travels around the country. "When you're from the hills and you're out in the flatlands, the natives like to pull your leg a little bit," he said. "People always exaggerate about the weather." Pfister says he enjoys playing the straight man for old-timers, gas station attendants, store clerks or anyone else who can add to his collection of weather windies.
An Arkansan transplanted in Texas once told Pfister that "comfortable summer days in Dallas are as rare as rocking horse manure." "I love that one," he said. A North Dakotan claimed it gets so cold in his state in winter, that "words freeze in people's mouths and they have to wait until spring to find out what everyone's been talking about." And an Oklahoman swears that the wind blows so hard in the Sooner state that there was a calm day once and everybody fell down.
Pity the folks in Nebraska, where it's been so hot, farmers have had to feed their chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. Talk about hot - an Iowa farmer says the sun was so intense one day, his cornfield exploded into fluffy white clouds of popcorn. His cattle thought it was snowing and froze solid on the spot.
Sure, everyone complains about the weather, but one man has finally decided to do something about it. Fred Pfister, an English professor at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., has compiled a list of tall weather tales - he calls them "weather windies" - that he's heard on his travels around the country. "When you're from the hills and you're out in the flatlands, the natives like to pull your leg a little bit," he said. "People always exaggerate about the weather." Pfister says he enjoys playing the straight man for old-timers, gas station attendants, store clerks or anyone else who can add to his collection of weather windies.
An Arkansan transplanted in Texas once told Pfister that "comfortable summer days in Dallas are as rare as rocking horse manure." "I love that one," he said. A North Dakotan claimed it gets so cold in his state in winter, that "words freeze in people's mouths and they have to wait until spring to find out what everyone's been talking about." And an Oklahoman swears that the wind blows so hard in the Sooner state that there was a calm day once and everybody fell down.
18 Aug 2020, 9:02 am
18 Aug 2020, 12:05 pm
auntblabby wrote:
SO YOU THINK IT'S BEEN A HOT SUMMER?
Pity the folks in Nebraska, where it's been so hot, farmers have had to feed their chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. Talk about hot - an Iowa farmer says the sun was so intense one day, his cornfield exploded into fluffy white clouds of popcorn. His cattle thought it was snowing and froze solid on the spot.
Sure, everyone complains about the weather, but one man has finally decided to do something about it. Fred Pfister, an English professor at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., has compiled a list of tall weather tales - he calls them "weather windies" - that he's heard on his travels around the country. "When you're from the hills and you're out in the flatlands, the natives like to pull your leg a little bit," he said. "People always exaggerate about the weather." Pfister says he enjoys playing the straight man for old-timers, gas station attendants, store clerks or anyone else who can add to his collection of weather windies.
An Arkansan transplanted in Texas once told Pfister that "comfortable summer days in Dallas are as rare as rocking horse manure." "I love that one," he said. A North Dakotan claimed it gets so cold in his state in winter, that "words freeze in people's mouths and they have to wait until spring to find out what everyone's been talking about." And an Oklahoman swears that the wind blows so hard in the Sooner state that there was a calm day once and everybody fell down.
Pity the folks in Nebraska, where it's been so hot, farmers have had to feed their chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. Talk about hot - an Iowa farmer says the sun was so intense one day, his cornfield exploded into fluffy white clouds of popcorn. His cattle thought it was snowing and froze solid on the spot.
Sure, everyone complains about the weather, but one man has finally decided to do something about it. Fred Pfister, an English professor at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., has compiled a list of tall weather tales - he calls them "weather windies" - that he's heard on his travels around the country. "When you're from the hills and you're out in the flatlands, the natives like to pull your leg a little bit," he said. "People always exaggerate about the weather." Pfister says he enjoys playing the straight man for old-timers, gas station attendants, store clerks or anyone else who can add to his collection of weather windies.
An Arkansan transplanted in Texas once told Pfister that "comfortable summer days in Dallas are as rare as rocking horse manure." "I love that one," he said. A North Dakotan claimed it gets so cold in his state in winter, that "words freeze in people's mouths and they have to wait until spring to find out what everyone's been talking about." And an Oklahoman swears that the wind blows so hard in the Sooner state that there was a calm day once and everybody fell down.
Where did you find this gem??
18 Aug 2020, 12:08 pm
I would like to marry that English professor if he changed his last name
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18 Aug 2020, 6:42 pm
I swear. 
This will be the last time...
auntblabby
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18 Aug 2020, 7:07 pm
blooiejagwa wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
SO YOU THINK IT'S BEEN A HOT SUMMER?
Pity the folks in Nebraska, where it's been so hot, farmers have had to feed their chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. Talk about hot - an Iowa farmer says the sun was so intense one day, his cornfield exploded into fluffy white clouds of popcorn. His cattle thought it was snowing and froze solid on the spot.
Sure, everyone complains about the weather, but one man has finally decided to do something about it. Fred Pfister, an English professor at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., has compiled a list of tall weather tales - he calls them "weather windies" - that he's heard on his travels around the country. "When you're from the hills and you're out in the flatlands, the natives like to pull your leg a little bit," he said. "People always exaggerate about the weather." Pfister says he enjoys playing the straight man for old-timers, gas station attendants, store clerks or anyone else who can add to his collection of weather windies.
An Arkansan transplanted in Texas once told Pfister that "comfortable summer days in Dallas are as rare as rocking horse manure." "I love that one," he said. A North Dakotan claimed it gets so cold in his state in winter, that "words freeze in people's mouths and they have to wait until spring to find out what everyone's been talking about." And an Oklahoman swears that the wind blows so hard in the Sooner state that there was a calm day once and everybody fell down.
Pity the folks in Nebraska, where it's been so hot, farmers have had to feed their chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs. Talk about hot - an Iowa farmer says the sun was so intense one day, his cornfield exploded into fluffy white clouds of popcorn. His cattle thought it was snowing and froze solid on the spot.
Sure, everyone complains about the weather, but one man has finally decided to do something about it. Fred Pfister, an English professor at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Mo., has compiled a list of tall weather tales - he calls them "weather windies" - that he's heard on his travels around the country. "When you're from the hills and you're out in the flatlands, the natives like to pull your leg a little bit," he said. "People always exaggerate about the weather." Pfister says he enjoys playing the straight man for old-timers, gas station attendants, store clerks or anyone else who can add to his collection of weather windies.
An Arkansan transplanted in Texas once told Pfister that "comfortable summer days in Dallas are as rare as rocking horse manure." "I love that one," he said. A North Dakotan claimed it gets so cold in his state in winter, that "words freeze in people's mouths and they have to wait until spring to find out what everyone's been talking about." And an Oklahoman swears that the wind blows so hard in the Sooner state that there was a calm day once and everybody fell down.
Where did you find this gem??
clipped it out of the local newspaper back in the late 00s sometime.
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18 Aug 2020, 7:08 pm
Edna3362 wrote:
I swear.
This will be the last time...
This will be the last time...
can you please tell me what is written there?
auntblabby
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18 Aug 2020, 7:09 pm
blooiejagwa wrote:
I would like to marry that English professor if he changed his last name
if he changed his last namehe is still alive and in the same neighborhood. don't know if he is widowed or with GF, though. he's a wizened old man at this point.
18 Aug 2020, 7:30 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Edna3362 wrote:
I swear.
This will be the last time...
This will be the last time...
can you please tell me what is written there?
TLDR; It's just a something 2 days ago. Might as well post it here if not ended up written elsewhere.
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18 Aug 2020, 7:36 pm
Edna3362 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Edna3362 wrote:
I swear.
This will be the last time...
This will be the last time...
can you please tell me what is written there?
TLDR; It's just a something 2 days ago. Might as well post it here if not ended up written elsewhere.
thank you
so that is a real organic language, or something novel?
