[Loch-Ruadh] Word of the Day, April 12
Cait O'Hara
lady_cait at lycos.com
Wed Apr 17 18:30:58 PDT 2002
Sorry for the lapse. Today (the 12th) is my anniversary. I took some time away from the computer in order to pursue some more physical activities.:)
Cait
Trouters
Passenger trains which stop at any point requested by anglers on holiday excursion.
-- George Storys Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 1982
Feast Day of St. Zeno, a patron of anglers. John Worlidge, in his Systema Agriculturae, the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered (1681), offers these reasons for fishings enduring popularity: There is not any exercise more pleasing nor agreeable to a truly sober and ingenious man than this of angling. It wearieth not a man over-much, it injureth no man
neither doth it in any wise debauch him that useth it. The delight of it also rouses up the ingenious early in the spring-mornings they have the benefit of the sweet and pleasant morning air which many, through sluggish[ness], enjoy not.
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Never meddle in the affairs of dragons;
For you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
-- Acacia
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