Re: Verbal nouns
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 5, 2000, 2:13 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> Ah me. In more innocent times (19th, early 20th cent.) when the US was
> still mainly a rural society, we are told that it was the habit of young men
> to do naughty things on Halloween like putting a cow in the local church, or
> on the roof (how???); or, dis-assembling a wagon or Model-T Ford and
> re-assembling it on top of City Hall. Nowadays, at least around here, they
> just set fire to vacant buildings.
An elderly man once told me that when he was a boy, they liked to knock
over outhouses on Halloween. :-)
TP-ing still seems to be fairly popular here. But, those are some
wonderfully elaborate tricks you mentioned! :-) A lot more work than
toilet papering someone's house!
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