Posted by susan C on September 30, 2001, at 16:53:14
In reply to Re: Ok I 'm lost , posted by dreamer on September 30, 2001, at 13:56:33
> > Ok Ok OK already, cotton buds are q tips are ear swabs...but in OUR house we call them ear wigs....ears ear ears ears cleaning (fill in child's name ) ears, goodness, how delicious cleaning (name) ears....
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> In your house-
> ear wigs as in wigs for head? little wool wigs on a stick?
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> > (and I was referring to the Similarity of cotton wool to wool roving, not that they were the same...sigh....)
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> roving- can't find this word in dictionary , closest is rover which means a wanderer;a fickle person;a senior scout.
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> > And when I was growing up my older brothers and sisters would INSIST soya sauce was BUG JUICE and I WOULD NEVER EAT it....
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> Nor would i
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> thread getting weirder.......dmaybe these are Amerikan things....
modified by a crazy set of parents entertaining their creative children...(original song:) peas peas peas peas eating gobber peas, goodness how delicious eating goober peas...
I dont know where the word roving comes from...other than from learning to spin. Anybody from New Zealand here?
ear wigs...I guess it is just my own little family's weird thing of bugs in ears...and I remember something when I was growing up about being told to be careful of having ears so dirty I could grow radishes in them...may be there is a children's rhymn about dirty ears...and then, cleaning my own kids ears and singing the pea song and changing the words, and being very silly.
real earwigs are ugly and scary to me.
mouse out in the open
susan c
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