[AT] old expressions

[captneb]

Nice!!!  Before the computer, there was "Xeroxlore," all those battered
sheets of "unofficial culture" we carried around folded in our billfolds!
And before that the chapbooks known as Tijuana Bibles.  And jokes that can't
be told anywhere except in the shop when ladies aren't present.  One of the
first things I did in my classes was disabuse anyone of the notion that
folklore is "old stuff."  I wonder what percentage of what we all know about
tractor mechanicking is "official information" from shop manuals, tech
sheets, etc., and how much is passed along from one of us to the other.  I
remember asking the master mechanic in this town once how tight to turn down
a rod cap nut (before I could afford a torque wrench!) and he said, "Rog,
just push on the socket handle until your bellybutton pooches out about a
quarter inch."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] old expressions


> On 2 Aug 2006 at 11:03, captneb wrote:
>
> > My friend Jan Brunvand came up with the misnomer urban legend and I have
> > chewed on him about it ever since.  They are obviously as rural as they
are
> > urban; he lives in a city (Salt Lake), heard them there, and simply
presumed
> > that they were more urban than rural.  A more accurate term would indeed
be
> > "modern legend," but arguing with language is rarely a productive
activity.
> > Thing is, old legends were meant to provide explanations in a world
where
> > there were so few answers and so many questions; modern legends give us
> > mystery and surprise where there is far too little of that.
> >
> > Roger Welsch (who was a folklore researcher and professor before he
became a
> > MTD....Master Tractor Dabbler)
>
>
>
>
> Roger, maybe since most of this stuff now comes from the internet
> instead of "modern" legend we should call one a "modem" legend...
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