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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?

footfootfoot · 09-17-2010, 03:32 PM

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

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, 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).

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?

xoxoxoBruce · 09-18-2010, 01:09 AM

Hampers have lids, laundry baskets do not.

bluecuracao · 09-18-2010, 03:21 AM

"A superior paper will show how a set of events shaped the person and reveal the order of their life within and against the organization of their world."

Nice! I've got some good stuff for you, MTP. I've been mulling over these very things lately.

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...

jinx · 09-18-2010, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Hampers have lids, laundry baskets do not.

And hampers are for storage, baskets for transport.

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?)

09-17-2010, 01:53 PM	#16
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09-17-2010, 02:06 PM	#18
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	#19
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	#21
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	#22
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	#20
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.

09-18-2010, 01:06 AM	#25
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

09-18-2010, 01:09 AM	#26
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Hampers have lids, laundry baskets do not. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

09-18-2010, 03:21 AM	#27
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	"A superior paper will show how a set of events shaped the person and reveal the order of their life within and against the organization of their world." Nice! I've got some good stuff for you, MTP. I've been mulling over these very things lately.

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