Thanks, Patrick. But you went a wee bit further than I had intended for the definition. All's OK though!
On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 1:49:45 PM UTC-6 Patrick Moore wrote: > Can't resist. Sandburg's literary style is an analogue of the painting > style of Grant Wood. > > Chicago > BY CARL SANDBURG > Hog Butcher for the World, > Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, > Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; > Stormy, husky, brawling, > City of the Big Shoulders: > > They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your > painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. > And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen > the gunman kill and go free to kill again. > And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and > children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. > And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my > city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: > Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be > alive and coarse and strong and cunning. > Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a > tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; > Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted > against the wilderness, > Bareheaded, > Shoveling, > Wrecking, > Planning, > Building, breaking, rebuilding, > Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, > Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, > Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, > Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his > ribs the heart of the people, > Laughing! > Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, > sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player > with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation. > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 12:46 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Answer that and you'll understand "bleed like a stuck pig" and "high on >> the hog." Also apparently "kick the bucket." >> >> "Hog butcher for the world ..." >> >> Patrick "Yes I looked it up but I had a suspicion" Moore, who has read >> Carl Sandburg. >> >> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:08 AM George Schick <bhi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ah, well do you know what that expression actually means? >>> >>> >>> On Monday, January 22, 2024 at 12:01:03 PM UTC-6 pi...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 9:39 AM George Schick <bhi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Piaw, what part of the country are you from? The expression, >>>>> "...squeal like a stuck pig..." is something I rarely hear outside of the >>>>> Midwest where I live (well, maybe the South or even the Plain states, not >>>>> sure). Seems to me like most folk out there on the West Coast wouldn't >>>>> know what you meant by that and would just give you a funny look. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I grew up in Singapore, nowhere near the USA. I think it was an >>>> expression I either picked up from reading or from co-workers. Certainly >>>> the sounds of disc brakes squealing are common here in the mountain bike >>>> parks. I will say that not just disc brakes are guilty of said squealing. >>>> Cantilvers and V-brakes are also known to squeal. 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