Evolution of local ag-land

[drako]

My favorite Brit word, posh, is actually an acronym. When the raj folks were shuttling between Britain and India, it was preferred, and more expensive, to have a cabin on the side of the ship where you could see land. So, as I understand it, the gentry preferred Port Out, Starboard Home.

Am I correct, Peter?

[photax]

Hi Roy !

Harvest ended here on the other side of the ocean. Took this picture in early August.



MIK

[daveh]

Drako, that is what is said - one version says it was because the cabins were in the shade, port out, starboard home, and hence cooler.

Strangely harvest has gone past me this year. I haven't noticed any harvesting being done.

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Crop Duster. Nikon D300,Tokina 70-200mm f/2.8 zoom

[mickeyobe]

Sept 7, 2010 17:56:26 GMT -5 daveh said:

Drako, that is what is said - one version says it was because the cabins were in the shade, port out, starboard home, and hence cooler.

I know Dave is correct but I have heard a version commenting on the high cost of travel by ship. POSH "Port out. Steerage home."

Mickey

[daveh]

Mickey, I think as with most phrases there is more than one version. There was also one which says the P and O come from the P&O Line - the S and H, though I can't remember exactly: something to do with its workers.

[drako]

For what it's worth, the lyrics of the fun "grandfather song" in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang read "Port out, starboard home, this is the life for me!"

[daveh]

Drako, sign of a misspent youth knowing the words to that!

[mickeyobe]

Dave, Drako,

Hey. I was already a grandfather when my grandchildren forced me to watch that tape over and over and ov........ etc.

I still like it and want a vehicle like that car/boat/plane when I grow up.

Mickey

[olroy2044]

I still like it and want a vehicle like that car/boat/plane when I grow up.

I guess that means you'll never have one, Mickey. People like you and I never grow up!! Just ask my wife! Roy

[olroy2044]

Re: the harvest

Methinks they waited too long! This area was hit by a short-lived but torrential downpour Wednesday night. Over an inch of rain fell in less than an hour. Streets and downtown businesses flooded, and a lot of crop damage occurred. This shot is of the sunrise and shows the build-up to the storm. Taken with a Pentax P3n with a Kiron 85-205 zoom mounted via an M42 to K-mount adapter. The city fathers are saying over a million dollars in damage occurred in about 3 hours. Tried to send some of it to Bob, but it wouldn't go!



Roy

[mickeyobe]

Re: The harvest.

I always feel sorry for farmers.
They work so very hard yet have no control over those natural forces that can destroy the results of their labours.

Mickey

[daveh]

I never feel sorry for farmers. Every year they moan about the weather. It's always too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, too sunny or too dull.....etc.

Crop failure is awful, and, for any one farmer, much worse if his (or her) farm is the only one affected. If everyone is affected, at the least the price they can get is forced up by 'supply and demand'. At least that would be the case if produce were not able to be transported round the world within hours.

Roy, I wondered why you hadn't posted that much recently. I see now that you have been getting up early to photograph nature in action. I really like that photo.

[mickeyobe]

Sept 11, 2010 2:57:13 GMT -5 daveh said:

I never feel sorry for farmers. Every year they moan about the weather. It's always too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry, too sunny or too dull.....etc.

Dave, I am not a farmer. I can't even grow weeds successfully I tried planting clover this year to give me a ground cover that needed little care. Nada.

But I, too, am always moaning about the weather.
It is my pleasure and privilege and right and duty to complain about the @)#($*%&^ weather.
If I complain long enough I can make the weather change - not improve - necessarily but change.

Weather griping is a refined art. Not everyone is suited for it.

Mickey