I like whippletree Patrick:
"[People] cut their own whippletree in the woodlot." (Emerson)
also called a 'singletree'. 'Tis a hardwood (these Glasgy types)
2008/6/20 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Or a further leap into a whippoorwill sitting on a whippletree
> P
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> That's droll Rob. Are you transforming from a rodent into a whippet?
> This could make you living proof of evolution.
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> 2008/6/19 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>:
>> From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> Ah, yes, pathetic little snappers they were.
>>
>> SADOMASOCHISTIC SNAP
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>> Whipper snappers
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>> R.
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Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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