Darthphere
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Ronny Shade is Nightwing.
I'll take it over close/delete though.Mee said:What a lame thread title.![]()
Ronny Shade said:If there's ever a "most threads made about a poster in one day" award. I hope you guys will remember wednesday december 6, 2006![]()
It is doneDarthphere said:Dont Do It!
R.I.P. our threads.Darthphere said:Dont Do It!
Dew k. Mosi said:There was once seven threads made about me in a day, but they were all about how much of a ***** I am, and how painfully I should get raped and/or die, by a series of banned poster names like DewSuxDick and DewKNaziI wept, and kept hitting the ban button
Lackey said:why do they call them pea coats anyway?![]()
Dear Word Detective: Where did the term "pea coat" come from? I know what a pea coat is, but I would like to know the origin of its name. -- Paige, via the internet.
Ah, pea jackets. I had a dandy pea jacket many years ago. It was during my Russian Intellectual phase, when I would stalk the streets glowering at small children, attired in a thick black turtleneck sweater and my trusty pea jacket, carrying the heaviest volume of Dostoevsky I could rustle up in central Ohio. Anyone who has experienced August in Ohio will understand why I dumped that getup fairly quickly.
Pea jackets, as any old salt knows, are the hip-length, double-breasted, dark blue cold-weather coats issued to sailors. Made from heavy wool, pea jackets have been standard naval issue since at least the 1700's and are still worn by the sailors of many countries today, including U.S. Navy personnel below the grade of chief petty officer.
Any item that has been around as long as the pea jacket is bound to generate a variety of legends about its origins, and pea jackets have spawned at least two. The most colorful, so to speak, traces the "pea" to the tendency of neophyte sailors, not yet accustomed to the rolling seas, to turn "pea green" from seasickness. The charm of this theory is the image it conjures of a young sailor asking why his newly-issued coat is called a "pea jacket" and receiving that quite possibly self-fulfilling prophecy as an answer.
A more sober and plausible theory decodes "pea jacket" as originally being "p-jacket," with the "p" standing for "pilot," the person who steers a ship into and out of a harbor. While this theory is not impossible, it turns out to be unnecessary.
The "pea" in "pea jacket" almost certainly comes from the obsolete English word "pee," which meant a coat made of coarse cloth. "Pee" in turn probably came from the Dutch word "pie" ("pij" in modern Dutch) found in the term "pij-jakker," meaning a coat very similar to our modern pea jacket.
StorminNorman said:I am waiting for the raw,real, hard-hitting interview with Mister Shade.
Erzengel said:I want to do the GAH: Behind the Virginity Interview, but he'd just give me bs answers.![]()