Well folks, I should have pulled the pin hours ago, I was just too tired. I've had a big week and another big one tomorrow. I should be back to normal, doing nothing while people think I'm working, on Thursday.
Night all and thanks.:)
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Well folks, I should have pulled the pin hours ago, I was just too tired. I've had a big week and another big one tomorrow. I should be back to normal, doing nothing while people think I'm working, on Thursday.
Night all and thanks.:)
My Dad's a New Zealander, and I must have got thi definition from him, but I always thought tupping was having a go out in the fields, although I always thought it was the milkmaids not the wooly ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
From my studies, Tupperware is a Middle English fashion for young pastoral dandies, especially pertaining to brightly coloured headwear. I recall some reference to Morris Dancers, but can't quite remember what the relationship is.
You can see why it's fallen into disuse, can't imagine that they got much.
I suspect tupperware is actually a shortening of tupper-beware, consider it the Middle English equivalent of geek pants.
hth.
If I may come in Ian,the term is tuppering when sheep are copulating,Tupperware(made in Hunstanton, Norfolk and in Unionhall Co.Cork Ireland), it is worn by the shepard in a richual not dissimular to Morrismen when attracting each other to Morris,the shepard or shepherdess,wear a bowl of the same colour on each shoulder,the colour is dependent on how many lambs they want from each 'tuppering'(Blue between 10-20,Red between20-30,Green don't know how many to have)Quote:
Originally Posted by V8Ian
Len Brotherton and his wife Gormless of Low Keld Farm, Crakenthwaite,Cumbria holds the record for wearing the most bowls at one Tuppering in the Spring of 1975.his Prize Tup 'Anternov the 6th' tuppered 35 lady sheep in there spare bedroom,needing much swopping of the coloured bowls by both Len and Gormless his wife,on the night of Thursday June the 9th of that year
They have never been 'OutTuppered' to this day.
Details extracted under duress from Ivan Cudworth in the bar of the Old Dungeon Gill Inn, Rakeside, Cumbria.
Following each tuppering the bowls are washed and put to use in the kitchen.(Gormless has 95 assorted coloured sets of differing sizes)
Dunlop make wellies Ian:angel:.
I'm off now,all this talk of sheep has made me hungry,so a kebab it is,tata.
All I know about Tupperware is that it's very expensive.
Every now and then one finds a word that could mean the same thing in another language.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grockle
"Tata" in Afrikaans means "Cheers, see you later" in English.(Sort off)
"My pen is in my hand." is written the same in English and Afrikaans and means exactly the same thing although pronouncing it is totally different.
Evening NM,Quote:
Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
That's an inferior copy,the best is from Mrs Martha O'Neil,3,The Peat Hall In Unionhall Co Cork.she moulded her first milk jug in 1930,after dropping her pot one on her husbands(Mr O'Neil)big right toe,causing great distress to him and more to poor Martha.
So she set about inventing a lightweight complete food service set,first trying cardboard,but this failed on thre first pre production filling,she then tried old shoes but the smell soon stopped this trial,then literally falling over a plastic milk crate,badly spraining her peat digging hand wrist!
she was soon turning out all shapes and sizes of the now famous plastic pots.
The US side is thought to have come via her nephew, Porage O'Neil who ran off to the US in early 1931 following an 'incident'with a lady sheep one night,taking a small (empty)soup bowl and the front door key with him,he got a women in the family way not long after getting off the steamer in Boston.her father taking the bowl as a severance never to see her again, seeing the potencial of it started making the copies.
So the party's at the Numpty's?:p:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
Evening peoples.:)
Another lonely fortnight coming up?:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus