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Originally Posted by V8Ian

I may need your assistance with this one Simon.

The meaning of the word 'tup' relates to copulation with sheep. So following on from that, tupperware would be items worn during the act of tupping. Do tupperware make gum boots, wellies to you Grock? Is Tupperware a Kiwi company? How many people on this forum have tupperware in their house? How often do you use tupperware?

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.

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.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I may need your assistance with this one Simon.

The meaning of the word 'tup' relates to copulation with sheep. So following on from that, tupperware would be items worn during the act of tupping. Do tupperware make gum boots, wellies to you Grock? Is Tupperware a Kiwi company? How many people on this forum have tupperware in their house? How often do you use tupperware?

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)

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Grockle

I'm off now,all this talk of sheep has made me hungry,so a kebab it is,tata.

Every now and then one finds a word that could mean the same thing in another language.
"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.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

and it's bloody good stuff, and IIRC an american invention...funnily enough I think a woman invented it oh....and in a previous life I used to sell it

Evening NM,
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.

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

and it's bloody good stuff, and IIRC an american invention...funnily enough I think a woman invented it oh....and in a previous life I used to sell it

So the party's at the Numpty's?

Evening peoples.