[TT] Beavering Away . . .

[Petrides, M.D. Marian]

Oh, please, don't tantalize us that way!!!


On Dec 13, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Neal Campbell wrote:

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> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Judy Perry <katheryn.swynford at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> Ummmm.... I'm feeling more stupid than usual. What exactly does  
>> "hoovering"
>> mean in the US?
>> And how long ago was this heaux conversation?  (yes, I've seen it  
>> spelt that
>> way).
>>
>> Judy
>> http://revined.blogspot.com
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Richmond Mathewson <geradamas at yahoo.com 
>> >wrote:
>>
>>> [TT] - Totally Tangential.
>>>
>>> Ha, Ha, Ha . . .
>>>
>>> When I was studying at SIU Carbondale I rushed into a teaching  
>>> assistants'
>>> meeting fresh from vacuuming the carpet at home and said:
>>>
>>> "Sorry I'm late, I have just been hoovering . . ."
>>>
>>> There was a deathly silence in the room!
>>>
>>> My understanding supervisor (A Canadian) took me outside and told me
>>> that 'hoovering' did not mean vacuum-cleaning in America.
>>>
>>> Late, I was working in the married students' garden plots when a  
>>> pleasant
>>> woman from Wyoming asked me how I managed to break up the clods of  
>>> earth
>>> so effectively. My reply; "I always use a hoe." was received in  
>>> silence,
>>> and then she walked off, never to speak to me again.
>>>
>>> In Britain, 'beavering away' means (or, maybe, meant, when I was  
>>> at school)
>>> "working away extremely eagerly"; no doubt connected with "eager  
>>> beaver" -
>>> which, no doubt, you North Americans will resemanticise as a
>>> synonym for "loose woman".
>>>
>>> Divided by a common language we may be; united by a love of  
>>> programming in
>>> Runtime Revolution I hope we all are.
>>>
>>> Welcome to the silly season !!!
>>>
>>> Love, Richmond.
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