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Miles Kington suggests that Dick the Shepherd should be arrested, "And get the health-and-safety people on to the milk frozen in buckets. That's a health disaster in any language." http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/miles_kington/article2007445.ece >From: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Who Is Greasy Joan? >Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:01:31 -0500 > >Absolutely! (As one who has done a fair bit of pot-keeling in her time). >I >used to always say "pote," until I caught on that "pot" was probably okay >at >this point. >How about Dick the Shepherd blowing his nail? Any of you guys done that >much? >mairead > >On 2/27/07, Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>I was wondering what anyone thinks of / has thought of when they hear the >>line "While greasy Joan doth keel the pot" in the 'When daisies pied...' >>song from Love's Labour's Lost . >> >> >>For some reason, I originally imagined it, hearing the song as a child, as >>scraping out the pot, but then later once the word keel as 'to make cold' >>had sunk in from other contexts as stirring the pot, with stew (or winter >>broth) in it, as this would be to make cold. But now I wonder if there's >>an >>element of Greasy Joan as trickster, or at least mischievous like a hob, >>making the pot keel when you want to bring it to the boil. Her quality of >>greasiness may be her slippery nature? >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>MSN Hotmail is evolving – check out the new Windows Live Mail >>http://ideas.live.com >> _________________________________________________________________ Rate your skiving credentials with our Slack-o-meter http://www.slack-o-meter.com