I have a nice big jar of Lemmons’ Maple Products’ maple candy before me. It’s good to have a family business that can provide an extreme sugar rush.
Would anyone like to join me for some sugar?
(Seriously, I have plenty to share.)
Would anyone like to join me for some sugar?
(Seriously, I have plenty to share.)
14 comments on “Maple”
Uh, do you really need to ask?
Tell me when and where, dude! đ
Sometime this week? When would you be free for a sugar rush?
For sugar- er, I mean you- any time! đ
Mayhaps Monday or Tuesday (i’ll be spending most of the day tomorrow sleeping as I didnt do that last night)?
That sounds fine. Drop me a line then and we can decide on a time and place.
good stuff!
You never talk to me anymore, damnit!
What a fine way to treat your saviour!
Sorry, dude!
Though I dont really talk to many people these days… đ
We shall set a firm date to hang out. I’m available anytime next week, as far as I know at the moment.
If I didn’t feel like utter crap today I would. Tomorrow I’m probably going to try and duck out of work early, so maybe tomorrow night, otherwise I’m not available until Friday.
Well, I will be free tomorrow evening, so just let me know if you’re up for it. If not I’ll stash some away for whenever I see you next.
Alright.
đ I’ll see what I can do.
Maple has higher energy value than brown sugar, though.
Coffee has energy too. Maple coffee is the bees’ knees.
You haven’t?? That’s quite unusual.
A bee’s “corbiculae”, or pollen-baskets, are located on its
tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase “the bee’s knees”,
meaning “the height of excellence”, became popular in the U.S. in
the 1920s, along with “the cat’s whiskers” (possibly from the use
of these in radio crystal sets), “the cat’s pajamas” (pyjamas were
still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less
sense and didn’t endure: “the eel’s ankle”, “the elephant’s
instep”, “the snake’s hip”. Stories in circulation about the
phrase’s origin include: “b’s and e’s”, short for “be-alls and
end-alls”; and a corruption of “business”.
The exact origin of “bee’s knees” remains a topic of debate, but there is wide-spread agreement that the phrase first appeared in North America during the 1920s. Some interesting theories are listed below.
1. Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacs on their legs. The allusion is to the concentrated goodness to be found around the bee’s knee. (extract from the Phrase Finder).
2. The expression was coined in the 1920s by an American cartoonist named Tad Dorgan, who also graced the language with such corny superlatives as “the cat’s pajamas” and less durable ones such as the “the flea’s eyebrows” and – a real clunker – “the canary’s tusks.” Dorgan also came up with: “Yes, we have no bananas.” I’ve long been puzzled why, to this day, the bee’s knees expression has maintained a certain currency in Britain, something it has not had for decades in the United States. The thought occurs that perhaps, more than half a century on, it’s a still lingering cultural artifact from the American occupation of the south of England in the lead-up to D-Day. (extract from the Guardian’s Notes and Queries site, article by Dave Todd)
3. It’s one of a set of nonsense catchphrases that originated in North America in the 1920s, the period of the flappers, nearly all of which compared some thing of excellent quality to a part of an animal. (extract from Michael Quinon’s World Wide Words).
4. I think the idea is that on a bee, knees are strictly a luxury. The phrase originated in 1920s U.S. slang, which had a whole slue of such phrases: “the eel’s ankle”, “the flea’s eyebrows”, “the clam’s garter”, “the snake’s hips”, “the elephant’s instep”, “the kipper’s knickers”, “the cat’s pyjamas”, “the canary’s tusks”, “the sardine’s whiskers”. The fact that “the bee’s knees” rhymes may have assisted its survival. (extract from the aue archives, article by Mark Israel)original article
5. The bee’s knees is actually a development from something that was originally stated as “The be all and the end all of everything.” this being rather long, was shortened to “the B’s and E’s” which eventually became “the bee’s knees” (extract from the Guardian’s Notes and Queries site, article by “Ogins”)
6. My _Dictionary of American Slang_ says “bee’s knees” was a fad started c1924. Like some Chinese menus, pick one from column A and one from column B… (extract from the aue archives, article by Robert Keller)original article
7. …[the] _bee’s knees_ may be a humorous pronunciation of _business_. I have seen this offered as a genuine derivation and it seems as plausible as the current favourite for _OK_. (from the aue archives, article by S. Z. Hanley)original article
I had never heard of “cat’s whiskers”, myself. I guess some of those phrases are regional.
I always do my best to be informative. I collect odd information and know how to use google.