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09-17-2010, 01:53 PM | #16 |
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The journey to the nuthouse might offer some interesting discourse. I'll thrown in my ballcap.
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09-17-2010, 02:00 PM | #17 |
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09-17-2010, 02:06 PM | #18 |
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How can it be a benefit when it's called a hamper?
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09-17-2010, 03:32 PM | #19 |
To shreds, you say?
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It holds your dirty clothes while they wait for laundry day.
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09-17-2010, 03:34 PM | #20 |
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Aaaah, this seems to be a BE/AE issue
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09-17-2010, 05:06 PM | #21 |
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I guess it goes back a few hundred years when Britain sent all their empty hampers to the colonies. We got them and having no food to put in them, we used them for dirty clothes, and well, you know the rest of that story...
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09-17-2010, 08:49 PM | #22 |
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Yes, I still call it a laundry basket, not a laundry hamper. Hampers are supposed to be full of nice things.
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09-17-2010, 10:43 PM | #23 |
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My point exactly. An had you sent nice things to the colonies in those hampers 200 some-odd years ago we might not be having this linguistic fol de rol.
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09-18-2010, 12:09 AM | #24 |
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09-18-2010, 01:06 AM | #25 |
To shreds, you say?
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I think we can and should blame Canada as often as possible. It was probably them that stole the food from the hampers in the first place, then tried blaming the Brits. Bloody mixers!
BTW, do you call what we call a cooler a hamper?
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09-18-2010, 01:09 AM | #26 |
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Hampers have lids, laundry baskets do not.
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09-18-2010, 03:21 AM | #27 |
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09-18-2010, 08:42 AM | #28 |
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09-18-2010, 10:05 AM | #29 |
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And hampers are for storage, baskets for transport.
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09-18-2010, 12:22 PM | #30 | |
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Quote:
A hamper has a closed top and is full of nasty, dirty clothes. (remember, at the end of Young Frankenstein, how Elizabeth tells The Monster that she got him a special hamper for his poo-poo undies?)
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