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Thread #29139   Message #1190280
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
20-May-04 - 08:19 PM
Thread Name: Where did 'ROUNDER' come from?
Subject: RE: Help: Where did 'ROUNDER' come from?
Machias?
More digression; reminiscent of:
Old Casey Jones was a son of a bitch
Ran his engine in a hell of a ditch
Motor exploded, whistle split
The fireman fainted and Casey shit.

Also:
Old Casey said before he died,
There's four more things I'd like to ride:
Bicycle, tricycle, pushmobile,
And a bow-legged whore on a Ferris wheel.

Burke pretty well covered the meanings of rounder. One other has been added in the OED; a worker who shapes or rounds something in a factory.

Probably posted before, these childhood rhymes are from Randolph and Legman, "Roll Me in Your Arms."