I'll pass over the davros crack, my dear Granpa, afficionadoes of Dr Who
might get it, but it doesn't apply to me. (btw we discovered something the
other day - the lifts all went down in our tower block - the Vixen, who is a
poor poor litle disabled girl, had to get down from my pad, which is on the
6th floor, to her own, which is on the ground. This involved Vicky going
backwards hand over hand down the fire escape stairs while I lugged her
zimmer - which weighs a ton - down too. We did it in under five minutes,
about which I'm impressed, as I've always had this covert fear about what if
there was a fire alarm? Twas too just after we talked to certain rodent on
the phone - no wonder things went mad)
All the Best
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> Yup davros if one was not then a lunkhead one could google it !which
states
> that there is no known derivation
> My personal theory is that it was evolved to describe a rabid rodent
> doormouse
> P loving P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 09 December 2005 15:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
>
> Yup, Grandpa, I think we all know what 'lunkhead' means, as in usage,
> question is what's its derivation?
>
> Thereupon the great minds are puzzled.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Mc Manus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
>
>
> > lunkhead
> >
> >
> > ("lVNkhEd)
> >
> > A blockhead. Hence lunk"headed a., thickheaded, stupid.
> >
> > 1884 'Mark Twain' Huck. Finn xxii. 225 So the duke said these
Arkansaw
> > lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare. 1889 A. W. Tourgee in
Chicago
> > Advance 19 Dec., You dear old lunkhead, I congratulate you! 1901 J. A.
> Riis
> > Making an American 315 A miserable little lunkhead quite beyond hope.
> 1885
> > J. Hill Corsairs 19 Prospecters tearfully eloquent to the horny-handed
> (and
> > lunkheaded). 1908 Daily Chron. 23 July 3/2 Now do you see, you
lunkhead?
> > 1934 Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves v. 52 A lunkhead capable of mucking
things
> > up as Gussie had done. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris ix. 165 They
are
> > not all lunkheads or mountebanks. 1966 Punch 7 Dec. 868/1 The poor
> > lunkhead's concerns soon get lost under all the modelling and
> backlighting.
> >
> >
> > Cheers P lunkhead P
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joanna Boulter
> > Sent: 09 December 2005 11:54
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> >
> > I only said you were a lunkhead because you had assured me the job was
> going
> >
> > to be just so damn easy you could do it more or less blindfolded.
That'll
> > larn you!
> >
> > What *is a lunkhead, anyway? I came across the term in some book or
other
> > many years ago now, liked the sound of it, and went on using it.
> >
> > joanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: Poem: Love the wild swan, by Robinson Jeffers
> >
> >
> > > From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >
> > >>I live in Perth, a city wrapped around a river called the Swan River.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't that be "Perth", Andrew? The *real* Perth is located in of
> > > course Scotland.
> > >
> > > I once passed a roadsign in England alleging the existence of a town
> > > called Moscow. Singularly unlikely, and I didn't bother to visit it.
> You
> >
> > > shouldn't believe everything you read on road signs, as anyone who has
> > > tried to navigate the winding motorways of Britain knows well.
> > >
> > > (Singularly fatuous early morning pre-coffee email, but I feel like
> saying
> >
> > > something now my internet access is firmly re-established. As is the
> > > successful reformatting of another computer anent which I solicited
> > > assistance yesterday. I will thank backchannel the three people who
> > > responded and saved my ass. And ignore the fourth who sent a rather
> cruel
> >
> > > email stating that I was a lunkhead.)
> > >
> > > The Red Rodent
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