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joyner wrote:Poof, are you familiar with the term poke meaning a bag? Spongebrain used it in one word and I was surprised. Maybe he has some Appalachian roots?
My grandmother on my father's side was from West Virginia and used terms like that all of the time. Some of them stuck and appear at the oddest times.
Morning all.
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spongebrain wrote:My grandmother on my father's side was from West Virginia and used terms like that all of the time. Some of them stuck and appear at the oddest times.
Morning all.
"Poke is a dialectal term for bag or sack . . . the word poke dates to c.1300 when it appears in The Lay of Havelok the Dane:
Hise pokes fulle of mele an korn.
(His pokes are full of meal and corn.)" ~wordorigins.com
Mornin', folks
Grumpy 'til the day I die.
AZGman
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daj59 wrote:Morning. Bad news....it's Monday. 
But also opening day for the local team. Go Tribe!
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daj59 wrote:Local team of what?
Baseball. Cleveland Indians
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pooflady wrote:And Cincinnati Reds.
Morning Ms. Poof.
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krapposelli wrote:Last night I was playing baseball in my dream and dove to catch a ball - apparently I whacked the husband in my attempt to save the game.
He didn't appreciate my sportsmanship at 3am.
Had a werewolf dream once; bit my wife in the back . . .
I still have the bruises to prove it.
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krapposelli wrote:Does she still have the bite mark?
No; I didn't get a firm enough grip before she smacked me. She said I had been making weird noises before I did it.
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krapposelli wrote:I'm almost positive I don't do this on purpose. 
I don't know, selli.
While in the normal state of dreaming, the muscles relax and the brain blocks signals that would permit the limbs to move, thus preventing the body from acting out its dreams. I believe that you might have been acting out a subconscious desire to
<wait for it>
//smack the krapp out of him
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