LOL

I am, alas, married to an incorrigible punster, and I suffer, even when the
bad puns are of my own making.  I can see that you must enjoy creating such
suffering yourself.

I must apologize to Sargon, because I thought his sentence was ["poussette"
does _not_ come from the verb "pousser"] instead of ["poussette" _does_ come
from the verb "pousser"], hence my strange answer. He should take pride,
however, in the fact that I mentioned the baby carriage last night at one of
our Calling Parties right after someone had taught the poussette in "The
Physical Snob" (we are learning both contra and English). The crowd went
"oooooh!" in a most satisfying way.

And Alan, thank you for all you do in helping us contraphiles become
anglophiles.

M
E

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <
winston at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Martha wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the linguistic update!  You don't suppose baby carriages are
> > called "poussettes" because they are...pushed... do you?
>
> > I'm just surprised no one took me to task for my bad pun on "poulet".
>
> We were too chicken to give you any trouble.
>
> -- Alan
>
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Sargon de Jesus <sargondj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > Just a quick side note, "poussette" does come from the verb "pousser"
> > > (push)
> > > in French, but the term probably comes from the word poussette itself,
> > > which
> > > is a baby carriage.  I think is a rather nice image for what goes on
> the
> > > figure.  And it's a fun little tidbit to share with the dancers too!
>  :)
> > >
> > > -Sargon
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM, <callers-request at sharedweight.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Send Callers mailing list submissions to
> > > >        callers at sharedweight.net
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Message: 2
> > > > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:13:33 -0500
> > > > From: "Martha Edwards" <meedwards at westendweb.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [Callers] name of dance
> > > > To: "Caller's discussion list" <callers at sharedweight.net>
> > > > Message-ID:
> > > >        <7d8d864a0809301213s4dc6d37agd86503103c2e9446 at mail.gmail.com>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > > >
> > > > Drat! I only saw the first post. Sorry for being late to the dance
> and
> > > > jumping in. It's still got strange timing, not that it matters, since
> the
> > > > dance is so flowy.
> > > >
> > > > In a poussette, someone "pushes" (french: poussez) and someone pulls
> > > > (not-french: poulet :-).  In Joyride, the woman pushes, or the man
> pulls,
> > > > taking his partner with him. The couples lead out four steps, then,
> > > > slightly
> > > > to the left, back in four steps (with the woman backing up) to trade
> > > places
> > > > with the other couple in the set of four.
> > > >
> > > > There are other poussettes, like the draw poussette, where the man
> (or
> > > the
> > > > woman) keeps on backing up while the couples trade places, rather
> like a
> > > > toy
> > > > train going around the christmas tree.
> > > >
> > > > M
> > > > E
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Tom Hinds <twhinds at earthlink.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I just learned a great contra that has great flow.   I'd like to
> know
> > > if
> > > > > anyone knows the title or composer:
> > > > >
> > > > > A1      gypsy neighbor, mad robin.
> > > > >
> > > > > A2      one half pousett, hey (about 3/4 hey) men pass left.
> > > > >
> > > > > B1      swing partner
> > > > >
> > > > > B2      ladies chain, star left.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks.
> > > > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Callers mailing list
> > > Callers at sharedweight.net
> > > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Callers mailing list
> > Callers at sharedweight.net
> > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
>
> --
>
> ===============================================================================
>  Alan Winston --- WINSTON at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
>  Disclaimer: I speak only for myself, not SLAC or SSRL   Phone:
>  650/926-3056
>  Paper mail to: SSRL -- SLAC BIN 99, 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park CA
> 94025
>
> ===============================================================================
>
> _______________________________________________
> Callers mailing list
> Callers at sharedweight.net
> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
>