[AT] 'farmer' Francis Robinson

rlgoss at twc.com rlgoss at twc.com
Sat Jan 28 19:06:30 PST 2017


Got a question for you guys.  This is VERY OT and I can't think of any way to bring a tractor reference into it.  Have you ever heard the slang expression "warm chopping ax?"  This occurs in a couple of letters that were written just prior to the 20th century by some young people.  These were farm people who understood how to cope with the technology of the day; cook stoves; firewood; butchering chickens; elementary animal husbandry; etc.  I have been unsuccessful at finding a definition for it.  It could be used in all innocence, but I suspect that it has a fairly bawdy connotation.  The whole sentence is: Give your warm chopping ax my love, and your little warm one too.  The writers were in their teens and early 20's.

Oh wait! This writing predates farm tractors by a couple of decades. (There's the tractor reference.)

Larry 


---- Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Last year I replaced the wood furnace in the house with a new larger one
> that also has blower forced firebox air and automatic controls including a
> remote thermostat. I pushed the old one (still in excellent condition) back
> in a corner until I could move it to the farm shop. That didn't happen yet
> so that is what I am doing this week. May need to get Scott to help me.
> Once it is in place I will be able to heat the shop up fairly quickly so I
> can work in there the rest of the winter and early spring.
> Go ahead, ask me how many doctors, specialist and medical technicians you
> can see in a day...  :-) I had always hoped that we would just get old and
> fall over someday without dealing with all of this nonsense.
> The Coq10 has apparently done a lot to repair some of that muscle damage
> done by the Atorvastatin at maximum dose. Now if I could just find
> something to deal with my arthritic spine.
> 
> 
> 
> .
> 
> 
> .
> 
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
> 
> > I deleted my Facebook account 3 days ago and all those calls I used to
> > get from solicitors quit!!!!
> >
> > Cecil in OKla
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/28/2017 1:09 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> > > Yeah, I'm still kicking...  :-)  Just not as high or as fast. Facebook
> > has
> > > gotten kind of out of hand and I no longer accept any friends there and
> > am
> > > going to cut some and some groups I am on there. More than once I have
> > > considered dropping it completely. I would if it were not for family
> > > contact I never otherwise see.
> > > I still try to keep this list read but sometimes it gets a week ahead of
> > me.
> > > I have not shown any tractors for some time but would like to again. Son
> > > Scott and I get to about 3 nearby shows a year.
> > > I have more to post but it's 2:00 AM and my drive belt is starting to
> > > slip...
> > >
> > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> robinson46176 at gmail.com
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Gene Waugh <gwaugh at wowway.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Thanks, I will see if I can locate him.
> > >>>
> > >>> Gene
> > >>> Elgin, Illinois
> > >>>
> > >>> Sent from my iPhone
> > >>>
> > >>>> On Jan 25, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>> Still around... he posted something on his Facebook page two days ago.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> SO
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Kenneth Gene Waugh <
> > gwaugh at wowway.com
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> Does anyone know the status of farmer (Indiana)?  I for one have not
> > >>> heard
> > >>>>> from or of him for ages.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Gene Waugh
> > >>>>> Elgin, Illinois
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com
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