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If one doesn't call it 'walnut wood," then what DOES one call it?

Loved the spam entry!

Good point, Kim. Er, she wants me to call it just "walnut." I DO see what she means. You don't call peanut butter "peanut butter food" or spaghetti "spagetti food;" I just don't want to give in. ;-)

What about cherry? Is it cherry wood, so it's distinguished from fruit?

I dunno, Debra. You'll have to ask TMK. I don't really understand the rules. They seem made up, to me. ;-)

I have a pet and tampon story too! When I was engaged to the Swede, he had a Doberman named Hector. Hector's ears had been cropped, but one of them wouldn't stand up right, so the vet told Per-Ola to use tampons as a splint to prop it up. Imagine his embarrassment when going to the grocery store in a very small town where everyone knew he was single, buying junior-size tampons!

Imagine HIS embarrassment?! Imagine the DOG'S!

aha, once again you have guaranteed some interesting hits with the sentences containing the words 'dogs and tampons'-

well, now i am confused by this whole wood issue- i have a table made from what i thought was called rosewood- should that just be 'rose,' or am i better off just avoiding the question?

finishing any project within one calendar year is my notion of success, so you are right on schedule with baby norgi- this could explain why my list of finished items is so small and why i like to fall back on the 'it's all about the process' rationalization-

stay happy-

I think walnut wood is a perfectly good name - TMK could be making a poker chip and card box out of walnuts... OK... maybe not...

TMK *is* right. And never utter the words "tuna fish" to me.

Ah, but, Kit, at the same time as you are posting your technically correct pronouncements about "tuna fish," my other readers are giving me ammunition, a la rosewood, to fight back with. As in, what about "swordfish?" You can't just call it "sword." I mean, really: "I ate filleted *sword* for dinner?!"

Barb, better off avoiding the rose/rosewood question until TMK has had a chance to weigh in, since I have no frickin' idea what I'm talking about. But TMK is working at a client's office today and doesn't have her usual handy-dandy access to the blog. But I'm sure, however, she'll weigh in later.

Melissa, lovin' the idea of a poker box out of walnuts! Very first grade!

My late kitty Morgan, the goofy one, also had this particular toy fetish, but her only access point unfortunately was the bathroon wastebasket. Before I acquired one with a LID, I took a hilarious picture of her tail and rear end sticking up from out of the wastebasket. Gotta find that photo...

Ah, but it is swordfish-- Not sword fish. One word. Same for rosewood.

TMK, we are right; they are wrong, wrong, wrong.

Kit, in my defense, I knew about the one word, two word thing. I'm just feeling feisty today. Besides, this should have you mulling the bigger question which is "WHY is 'swordfish' one word and 'tuna fish' two?" Oy; the English language!

Uh, 'cause like you said, you could have a piece of tuna for dinner... but having a "piece of sword"?

A swordfish is a fish that looks like a sword. A tuna is not a fish that looks like a tuna, (huh?) so we don't make a compound word outa it.

Rosewood is a compound word that describes a wood that has a rosy color. It is not wood from roses.

Ha ha.

I need to go find something constructive to do...

Hi everyone! My magazine project has been put to bed and into the capable hands of the FedEx guy so now I can get into the discussion about "wood."

Okay. When one goes to the lumber yard to purchase wood, it is assumed that one is there for wood so when you ask for walnut, you get wood from a walnut tree, not a bag of walnuts. Same goes for cherry. If you ask for cherry at the grocery store, you get fruit--at the lumber store, cherry gets you wood. Rosewood is one word, so you use the word "wood."

And what about mahogany? Is there a "mahogany tree?" Okay. So I went and checked and there is a mahogany tree, but it's real name is Swietenia macrophylla so I'm not sure it really counts. Maybe it should be "swietenia wood." Or not. ;-)

TMK

(BTW, I'm completely making this sh*t up.)

Tampons are wonderful toys!! They also make lovely, just ******* lovely Christmas angel ornaments, with the addition of some wings (and guess where ya get the wings?)

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Nina, thumbs up to you for joining my little rebellion, pointless thought it may be.

And, everyone, remember how, in my last entry, I said "if I were a Martian?" Can you IMAGINE what a Martian would make of these comments? They make sense to ME--and I'm loving them--but our poor little alien would be completely dumbfounded, don't you think?

Ok, here's a question. Ok a couple of them. OK a few. Sue me.

1. Do we have any English majors out there?

2. Is it WRONG to say walnut wood or simply not within the social norm?

3. Just where did TMK get her wood name calling information? From some burly man at the lumber yard (or is it just the yard...or just the lumber??) Anywho, can we trust this information?

Just wanted to throw my 2 cents in. hehe

Hope everyone has a great day!!

Stalker Angie: When in manland, you need to speak manlandese. You can ask for "walnut wood" and you'll probably get your walnut but that sound you hear as you leave the store will be all the guys in the store and behind the counter snickering not-so-quietly as you exit. ;-)

TMK

Angie, far be it from me to explain how TMK thinks, but I think her instincts are just telling her "walnut wood" is redundant. I don't think any burly woodworker has brainwashed her, at least not lately. And she's just trying to protect me from looking like a dork, bless her little heart, but I'm stubbornly determined to march headlong into dorkdom--but it's nice to know I will have Nina by my side!

Oh, and as for whether we have English majors out there or not--even though I'm being ornery and argumentative in my interactions with her today--English major or not, my experiences with Kit tell me the girl Knows Her Stuff; you can trust what she says. Oh, and, wait, I just remembered--*I'm* an English major!

My dearest Ryan,

It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that your darling TMK has been infected. She needs an emergency makeup application and a party dress, stat. Force her to a tea party surrounded by females and put some knitting needles into her hands. I know it sounds harsh, but she has begun to care what men think. It's really the only way.

TMK dear, it really is for your own good. You can go back to your power tools of course, but perhaps you should avoid men for a while.

Heavy Hearted,
Stalker Angie

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Please don't make me wear a dress.

TMK

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Please don't make her wear a dress.

OK. I give. You both win. But if our darling TMK starts spitting in public I get to say "I told you so". How about a nice flowing pants suit? hehe

After reading all the comments, I'm having visions of TMK in a long, sequined gown and ridiculously high heels buzz sawing the hell out of a big, burly piece of walnut under a flashing neon sign that says "It's WALNUT, damnit!"

I know, I'm sick and wrong.

Well, now, that was a nice little vacation. All the comments made me laugh my poor little self silly. Walnut and butternut are my TWO FAVORITE woods EVER. I just can't get enough of them. So sensual. In fact, I bought a walnut lucet at Rhinebeck and I can't stop holding it and admiring it.

Having recently watched a Halloween showing of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so help me, Kristen's comment left me with a visual of Leatherface in drag...

The tampon comment made me laugh. My Clea-kitty, who passed away a couple of weeks ago, got hold of a tampon once & tore it to shreds, too. So you're right - it must be so.

HAAAA! Not only a good post, as usual, but the comments get me going too!!!
So much so, I have to go get some more coffee drink!

okay, but what about plywood- look, everyone- a knitting/spinning connection here-

and just what tree gives that rosy rosewood?

maybe i'll just go lie down in a nice quiet rooom for a little while- pondering the english language is a bit much today-

stay happy-

Years ago I made some felted kitty mice. Basically, what I did was take a fairly large double-handful of carded fleece and felt it into a sort of cylindrical shape. I then attached a piece of yarn as a tail.

It looked WAY too much like a tampon to leave out for Polite Company to see.

*sigh* many a time I went to visit my aunt and her cat lotti would have taken *one* claw (we always called it the index claw) and pulled one tampon from the box and gleefully tossed it about the house until the wrapper was sogged off, then the cardboard outter covering. once all that happened she felt like she was the bestest cat in the whole world and would leave it for you to find it in the most traversed places. Worked for us to keep her happy, made the houseguests a leetle nervous.

and all this stuff about TMK wearinga dress made me laugh loud enough for the cube neighbors to hear. you could always stuff a fruited or flowered hat for the same effect. a la harry potter and the bogart.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha rotflmao
though a bachelor there were many Tampon kitty incidents growing up with the Moms:)
I know i have descended to junior high here, but am i the only one who giggled at the frequent use of the word wood?

Devin: I'm afraid Ryan and I don't have the same reaction to the word "wood" as you do! ;-)

TMK

a thousand apologies....I am apt to forget not everyone has the odd word connotations that i do.
Though i do agree that is it walnut, TMK and not walnut wood.( I learned that from my other mom when she and my Bio mom were having the same debate)