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wolf · 09-17-2010, 01:53 PM

The journey to the nuthouse might offer some interesting discourse. I'll thrown in my ballcap.

Scriveyn · 09-17-2010, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty

... I figure we'll mostly conduct the interviews via email, so distance is no hamper (and probably is a benefit). ...

A hamper would definitely be a benefit though. - Ouch, next please.

wolf · 09-17-2010, 02:06 PM

How can it be a benefit when it's called a hamper?

Scriveyn · 09-17-2010, 03:34 PM

Aaaah, this seems to be a BE/AE issue

A hamper in BE is a basket of food either for a picnic or given as a present.

footfootfoot · 09-17-2010, 03:32 PM

It holds your dirty clothes while they wait for laundry day.

footfootfoot · 09-17-2010, 05:06 PM

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...

monster · 09-17-2010, 08:49 PM

Yes, I still call it a laundry basket, not a laundry hamper. Hampers are supposed to be full of nice things.

footfootfoot · 09-17-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Yes, I still call it a laundry basket, not a laundry hamper. Hampers are supposed to be full of nice things.

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.

casimendocina · 09-18-2010, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

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.

So we can't "blame Canada"? (Griff's posting about his day on the cellar sent me off on that tangent).

Griff · 09-18-2010, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by casimendocina

So we can't "blame Canada"? (Griff's posting about his day on the cellar sent me off on that tangent).

Not me! Gravdigr! I had to work so I could only post one flame...

casimendocina · 09-19-2010, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff

Not me! Gravdigr! I had to work so I could only post one flame...

As soon as I'd logged off and wandered away from the computer, I wondered if I'd typed the wrong name. Sincerest apologies.

wolf · 09-18-2010, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Yes, I still call it a laundry basket, not a laundry hamper. Hampers are supposed to be full of nice things.

A laundry basket has an open top, and holds clean clothes waiting to be folded and put away.

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?)

Elspode · 09-19-2010, 12:50 AM

I've got tons of 70's hippie-stoner material. Well, what I can remember of it.

morethanpretty · 09-19-2010, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

I've got tons of 70's hippie-stoner material. Well, what I can remember of it.

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

You could do me if you want. I live in another country. Have children by a man from a totally different culture to my own, which is different again from your own, and my life/lifestyle has changed a fair bit through the course of my life.

Anyway, that's my plug. I'd actually be interested to see what you'd come up with.

I'm not sure if y'all can be added to the poll, and the others got head start....I'll pm a mod though.

footfootfoot · 09-18-2010, 01:06 AM

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?

09-17-2010, 01:53 PM	#1
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	The journey to the nuthouse might offer some interesting discourse. I'll thrown in my ballcap. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-17-2010, 02:06 PM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	How can it be a benefit when it's called a hamper? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

09-17-2010, 03:32 PM	#5
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	It holds your dirty clothes while they wait for laundry day. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-17-2010, 05:06 PM	#6
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

09-17-2010, 08:49 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Yes, I still call it a laundry basket, not a laundry hamper. Hampers are supposed to be full of nice things. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

09-17-2010, 03:34 PM	#4
Scriveyn amnesic-confabulatory opsimath Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Between my ears Posts: 739	Aaaah, this seems to be a BE/AE issue A hamper in BE is a basket of food either for a picnic or given as a present.

09-19-2010, 12:50 AM	#13
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I've got tons of 70's hippie-stoner material. Well, what I can remember of it. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

09-18-2010, 01:06 AM	#15
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	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? __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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