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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 10:29:28 GMT
Guess who. Guess where.  |
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Post by Power Ranger on Mar 22, 2024 10:32:59 GMT
Were you fair haired as a child?
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 10:43:05 GMT
Were you fair haired as a child? I was white haired when I was very small then it went to blonde around 12 years old and was light brown by 15. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 22, 2024 11:01:08 GMT
you, trafalgar sq.
I believe no one could wear a safari suit with the same degree of causality.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 11:13:49 GMT
you, trafalgar sq. I believe no one could wear a safari suit with the same degree of causality. Did you spot Noel Edmonds in the background? |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 22, 2024 11:15:35 GMT
you, trafalgar sq. I believe no one could wear a safari suit with the same degree of causality. Did you spot Noel Edmonds in the background? Nah, I was quoting Partridge about Roger Moore! Isn’t that a safari suit you have on? |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 11:23:44 GMT
Did you spot Noel Edmonds in the background? Nah, I was quoting Partridge about Roger Moore! Isn’t that a safari suit you have on? Did you really mean 'causality'? |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 22, 2024 11:28:49 GMT
Nah, I was quoting Partridge about Roger Moore! Isn’t that a safari suit you have on? Did you really mean 'causality'? |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Mar 22, 2024 11:37:45 GMT
Were you fair haired as a child? I was white haired when I was very small then it went to blonde around 12 years old and was light brown by 15. Towhead |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 13:23:08 GMT
I was white haired when I was very small then it went to blonde around 12 years old and was light brown by 15. Towhead Never heard of it. |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Mar 22, 2024 13:40:55 GMT
That’s what a blond child is often called. It might be Southern slang. They often grow up to have brown hair, which is just darkened blond hair. Tow is an old word for flax ready for spinning. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 13:52:02 GMT
That’s what a blond child is often called. It might be Southern slang. They often grow up to have brown hair, which is just darkened blond hair. Tow is an old word for flax ready for spinning. Pronounced like 'toe'? |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Mar 22, 2024 14:05:34 GMT
That’s what a blond child is often called. It might be Southern slang. They often grow up to have brown hair, which is just darkened blond hair. Tow is an old word for flax ready for spinning. Pronounced like 'toe'? Yes. tow (n.1) "the coarse, broken fibers of flax, hemp, etc., separated from the finer parts," late 14c., probably from Old English tow- "spinning" (in towlic "fit for spinning," tow-hus "spinning-room"), perhaps cognate with Gothic taujan "to do, make," Middle Dutch touwen "to knit, weave," from Proto-Germanic *taw- "to manufacture" (see taw (v.)). also from late 14c. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 22, 2024 14:07:49 GMT
Yes. tow (n.1) "the coarse, broken fibers of flax, hemp, etc., separated from the finer parts," late 14c., probably from Old English tow- "spinning" (in towlic "fit for spinning," tow-hus "spinning-room"), perhaps cognate with Gothic taujan "to do, make," Middle Dutch touwen "to knit, weave," from Proto-Germanic *taw- "to manufacture" (see taw (v.)). also from late 14c. Actually now you mention it, I remember reading a child's poem once about the viking "whose hair is made from lank and tow". Never knew what that meant - 40 years later, now I know, thanks! |
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Post by PaulsLaugh on Mar 22, 2024 14:16:45 GMT
Yes. tow (n.1) "the coarse, broken fibers of flax, hemp, etc., separated from the finer parts," late 14c., probably from Old English tow- "spinning" (in towlic "fit for spinning," tow-hus "spinning-room"), perhaps cognate with Gothic taujan "to do, make," Middle Dutch touwen "to knit, weave," from Proto-Germanic *taw- "to manufacture" (see taw (v.)). also from late 14c. Actually now you mention it, I remember reading a child's poem once about the viking "whose hair is made from lank and tow". Never knew what that meant - 40 years later, now I know, thanks! It’s probably a term once used, but now out of style in the UK, while surviving but in the US lexicon. I myself was a towhead.  |
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