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Just when I think I've got Boston English down pat
By adamg on Sat, 12/08/2007 - 4:14pm
OK, I'll bite: What's a calf paht?
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Someone gets a "C" in
Someone gets a "C" in spelling.
Dec. 9, 10:30 a.m. Lilli Nye will speak on “Stepping Off the Calf-Path” and on how this church community can be a place that cultivates responsible freedom and supports constructive dissent against the well-worn grooves of consumer society. We will also celebrate new members.
West Roxbury is not the place I'd preach against the consumer society.
Ah!
Thanks for clearing that up.
But if you only follow half her calf-path advice, would that be a paht path?
Calf-path, calf-paht?
In the West Roxbury that I grew up in
(60's and 70's) either would have been a
bit too esoteric to generate a crowd
on Sunday morning.
The Unitarians may do better on this if they
can get a couple of the Patriots cheerleaders
to back up Reverend Nye.
Sam Walter Foss
I had never heard of "calf path" before, but a little Googling turns up this poem from (Somerville's own) Sam Walter Foss: The Calf Path
Why not? Please expound.
Why not? Please expound.
Calf Paht
A calf "paht", as spoken by a Bostonian, is simply part of a calf.
Presumably, Roche Bros. sells them
Right next to the chicken pahts and beef hahts - which you can throw in ya caht on ya way to the Pop Tahts.
And, um,
Isn't December 8 Saturday?
Olny Paht of the problem?
There is a sign on Rt. 16 in Mefuh that reads "Emergency Stopping Olny".
Maybe the same person attempted to spell "part" on the sign?
so glad that we focus on the
so glad that we focus on the hard hitting news... thanks for keeping boston's standard high...
Gee thanks!
Without wonderful "priority trolls" like yourself, I don't think any of us here could possibly know how to keep our priorities straight, or our conversation up to your exacting quality standards.
Here's to you Priority Troll - because, after all, it's all about you!