Comments by shamus

  • In Joyce's _Ulysses_, Bloom contemplates a ham and gorgonzola cheese sandwich and thinks "Ham and his descendants mustered and bred there. Potted meats. What is home without Plumtree's potted meat? Incomplete."

    Mustard = mustered

    November 5, 2009

  • another word for vegetables = weggebobbles in Joyce's _Ulysses_, the 'Lestrygonian' episode.

    November 4, 2009

  • made from frayed ropes, baggywrinkle is most often used on rigging such as stays and spreaders to prevent sails from chafing; may be seen on the bows of tugboats as gigantic fenders.

    May 28, 2009