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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
| Subject | Re: squirrelly |
| Message-ID | <nu2n1t.1B19@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-09-02 22:41 +0000 |
| References | <mripgj$37f$1@dont-email.me> <ntnvu9.1o0G@kithrup.com> <fbwghuhh1323$.1g4fw9jk4f9yq$.dlg@40tude.net> <d4pb9uFntedU1@mid.individual.net> |
| Organization | Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. |
In article <d4pb9uFntedU1@mid.individual.net>, John F. Eldredge <john@jfeldredge.com> wrote: >On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:17:52 -0400, Brian M. Scott wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:27:45 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> >> wrote in<news:ntnvu9.1o0G@kithrup.com> in rec.arts.sf.composition: >> >>> In article <mripgj$37f$1@dont-email.me>, >>> William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> I think that this word has separate, almost conflicting meanings in US >>>> and UK. >> >>>> In UK it means jittery, restless, unpredictable. >> >>>> In US, especially rural US, it means cunning, a trickster, difficult >>>> to pin down. >> >>>> Is this so? >> >>> In my experience (73 years in the US, but mostly in the West) it means >>> crazy. >> >> In mine it’s not that strong: it’s ‘erratic, unpredictable, >> likely to act without due regard for possible consequences to self and >> others’. >> >> Brian > >Well, some people use the term "crazy" to mean what you described. It >certainly fits the personality of the squirrels I have encountered. Perhaps you've come closer to squirrels than I have. I've met the ones on the UC Berkeley Campus, who are decidedly not tame, but experience with humans who feed them have made them bold. They'll come to your hand for food, but better to put the food down on the ground lest they take your fingertip off with the peanut. Then there are the squirrels who live in and about my neighbor's 300-year-old oak tree. Mostly they just frisk around and run along the telephone wires, but in acorn season they have ferocious battles with the blue jays over who gets to harvest Every. Single. Acorn. It gets pretty noisy. If I were the size of a squirrel, I'd run. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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squirrelly William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 18:17 -0400
Re: squirrelly "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-25 19:04 -0400
Re: squirrelly William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 19:41 -0400
Re: squirrelly Bill Swears <wswears@gci.net> - 2015-08-27 07:00 -0800
Re: squirrelly djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-25 23:27 +0000
Re: squirrelly "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-25 21:17 -0400
Re: squirrelly "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> - 2015-09-02 22:25 +0000
Re: squirrelly djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-09-02 22:41 +0000
Re: squirrelly "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-02 19:46 -0400
Re: squirrelly "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2015-08-25 22:36 -0400
Re: squirrelly Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2015-08-25 22:57 -0300
Re: squirrelly djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-26 11:36 +0000
Re: squirrelly Jim Hetley <jhetley@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-26 04:49 -0700
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