jojimyers has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 2 lists, listed 17 words, written 11 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 0 words.
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jojimyers commented on the word hush puppies
The "corn dogs" are different from "hush puppies" and the story I heard was that of a Confederate encampment, so as not to alert the Union troops to its location, tossed "cornballs" to the dogs to keep them quiet.
October 28, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word shahi
Kabul Shahi Wikipedia (english)
October 28, 2009
jojimyers commented on the list adyapi
An interesting connection to Sanskrit words is in the book with an extensive forward by the Swiss doctor Carl G. Jung, "The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" (though Jung stated he was related by marriage to the German poet Goethe. Some in NYC history research think he also supplied Hessian officers for the British to police NYC during the American Revolution, reported in the NY Times. They had a reported 50% desertion rate, due to the conditions they found.)
October 28, 2009
jojimyers commented on the list sanskritist
adyapi
October 28, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word minie ball
Sometimes refered to as a "minnie ball" it was neither a "ball" nor of small caliber, a conical bullet and a rifle with "rifling" to impart spin to the bullet as it traveled down the gun barrel. Invented by the French it was used in the American Civil War, resulting in terrible injuries, and suspect myth.
October 28, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word tara
Perhaps from the prehistoric site, "Hill of Tara" occupied since 3500 BC, and known today as the "Mound of the Hostages" according to yesterday's (October 26, 2009 finished) international archaeology conference held by UCD (University College Dublin) School of Archaeology in the Republic of Ireland.
October 28, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word wizjug
Resulting in "screaming meemies"?
October 24, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word wizjug
Sorry I had to produce a number of "wizjugs" for Occupational Medicine's Dr. Ehrlich at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC to work on the West Point Foundry site on the periphery of the Marathon Battery EPA Superfund National Priority Site (nickel and cadmium for Nike missiles) where we uncovered the R.P. Parrott's gun platform, on grillage, for his patented rifled cannon, either the prototype or the one used for "Swamp Angel" in the incendiary bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, described in poetry, particularly by Herman Melville and got carried away. It was found below the remains of the "Bridge Shop" remains from ca. 1912, when the Chicago Bridge and Steel Co., was there in Cold Spring, NY across the river from the West Point Military Academy. Our "wizjugs" were brown w/ white caps, were yours?
October 24, 2009
jojimyers commented on the user jojimyers
This wordie looks like the one in England...but is just right!
October 23, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word wizjug
Is this from the US Civil War? Urine was collected by the Confederacy in quantity "for the cause" which was evaporated and turned into munitions to fight the Yankees. There was some poetry written in reference to the practice.
October 22, 2009
jojimyers commented on the word dulse
Also hand-harvested on Grand Manan Island (Dark Harbour and elsewhere) in New Brunswick, Canada and Ironbound Island, Winter Harbor, Maine, USA as "Wild Atlantic Dulse" (Palmaria palmata). Many wet "tons" to yield very few "pounds" in the lowest cycles of tides, created by our Moon. Sundried on rocks and/or nets.
October 22, 2009