BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?

Subject: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Cluin
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 01:30 AM

Because that would be really frightening.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 04:36 AM

Do boogey players clean up the keyboard after them?
Who eats ghoulash? Is poletna a sort of pyroclastic porridge?

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 04:46 AM

I wish people would stop 'picking' on the boogeyman!

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 05:58 AM

.............'round these parts he's known as 'The Bogeyman' - as here:

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=8144

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 07:48 AM

No he'snot.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Emma B
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 08:08 AM

Belle's Bonnie Bogey as performed by
The Mrs Ackroyd Band on Gnus and Roses CD LOL!

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/mrs.ackroyd/records/gnusandroses.html

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 08:14 AM

Some of the responses to this thread have been pretty much what I would have expectorated.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 08:22 AM

He's Bogey not Boogie and he smokes cigarettes and hangs around airports with Ingrid Bergman.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 09:13 AM

Ah, blow it out yer nose! (And use a Kleenex or a hanky.)

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 10:01 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_mucus

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:03 AM

This is really a dumb question. For one thing the bogeyman is imaginary. So he's made out of imagination. All there is to it.

For another, etymologically speaking, the bogeyman draws his name from a different root stock than the slang word for nasal mucus, or boogers. So conflating the two is a willful or ignorant act of suppression of Important Truths.

The IQ Police are being notified as we speak. Well, not speak, exactly, but you know what I mean...



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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:12 AM

bogey (1)
World War II aviator slang for "unidentified aircraft, presumably hostile," probably ultimately from bogge, a variant of M.E. bugge "a frightening specter" (see bug). This was the presumed source of many dialect words, such as bog/bogge (attested 16c.-17c.), bogeyman (16c.), boggart "specter that haunts a gloomy spot" (c.1570, in Westmoreland, Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire). The earliest modern form appears to be Scottish bogle "ghost," attested from c.1505 and popularized c.1800 in Eng. literature by Scott, Burns, etc. In British folklore, a boggart (or bogart, bogan, bogle or boggle) is a household spirit which causes things to disappear, milk to sour, and dogs ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggart

Actually they may have a common root back there amongst the faeries, but, oy, have they reached different addresses!! The IQ police will probably press some lesser charge or other.


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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:14 AM

So JK Rowling didn't invent the boggart? Ya learn something new every day...

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:15 AM

Oh no.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Amos
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 12:00 PM

Actually, many people believe that the bogart was invented by an actor named Humphrey, but this theory reached a dead end in Casablanca in the early twentieth century.


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Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Nancy King
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 01:38 PM

It wouldn't be too hard to make this a music thread if we were to boogie...

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 03:02 PM

ala John Hartford

"Hey babe, ya' wanna boogie?
Boogie-woogie-woogie with me?"

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 03:35 PM

Apparently, John did not know that you can pick your friends and pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 02:25 AM

BS: Is Amos made of snot?

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 02:26 AM

;)

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 02:46 AM

>>>>>>>>>Actually, many people believe that the bogart was invented by an actor named Humphrey, but this theory reached a dead end in Casablanca in the early twentieth century.<<<<<<<<<<<<<         
"Didn't he say "Pick it again Sam"!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Gurney
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 03:10 AM

Amos, loath as I am to correct your assertion of 11.12, the Boggart does not cause dogs. DOGS cause dogs!
One has to be a bitch, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 04:05 AM

Boggart Hole Clough is in north west Manchester (UK). The last word's pronounced "cluff". Another pic.

Subject: RE: BS: Is the Boogeyman made of snot?
From: Will Fly
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 04:50 AM

By gum, it's a long while sin I've seen t' Clough! Hast ever bin up t' Pike? Bottom O't Moor?

Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT DO DOGGIES DO WHEN THEY GET BOGIES
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Nov 08 - 05:43 AM

What do doggies do when they get bogies up their nose?
What do doggies do, I'd like to know!
Do they sneeze, do they cough,
Do they come out when they go 'wuff'?
I've never seen a doggie use a handkerchief.
Do they rub them off their noses or scratch them with their feet?
Or do they rub them off against a tree?
Do they splutter, do they wheeze, oh won't someone tell me please!!
What do doggies do when they get bogies?!


Or something like that. If you want to know, ask John Kirkpatrick

LTS