where did the name pup tent come from?
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http://www.dynamicphonics.com/page18.html --April 2005. pup tent - these small tents were used by the Union soldiers during the Civil War. The tents were so small and looked like dog kennels, so the soldiers named them 'dog tents,' and would stick there heads out of them and bark. The term later changed to pup tents. Thanks--I learned something today.
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omg...you will never believe this but mine is Lady Tightbottom  I had a collie named Lady and lived on the river road called tight bottom because it was called the bottom of the river and was one lane, hence tight.   I got enough kidding in school living on tightbottom rd. but this! hahahahaha   lmfao
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"The phrase "raining cats and dogs" originated in seventeenth-century England.  During heavy downpours of rain, many of the poor animals who roamed the streets unfortunately drowned, and their bodies could be seen floating in the rain torrents that raced through the streets.  This situation gave the appearance that it had literally rained "cats and dogs" and led to the current expression."
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Nortwest Territory tents are made for Kmart by a company called Northpole . Here's their contact info. Good Luck!\n\nNorthwest Territory by Kmart\n3333 Yale Way\nFremont, CA 94538-6169\nUSA\nPhone: (800) 366-1599
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The term has its origins in Aberdeen Scotland. A 15th century land-owner and pig farmer, by the name of Adam Dunnings, became famous for using the same giant saddleback pig to carry him to work every day for 20 years. This story is also the origin of the name 'saddleback' as the pig was 'saddled' by the farmer. When the pig died the farmer honored his beast by eating him.
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In Middle English it was farten, while in Old English it was thought to be *feorten (that is a reconstruction as the Old English form has not survived in writing).  The Indo-European root is *perd- "to fart, to break wind".  That root gave Greek perdon "fart", which turns up in the genus name of a type of mushroom, the puffball, also know as the "wolf's fart" (from the literal translation of its Greek name: lycoperdon).  Puffballs shoot their spores out in what resembles a puff of smoke, hence this name and the English dialect name puck-fist ("Puck's fart"). \n\nThe Indo-European root *perd- is thought by some to have been imitative of the sound of farting.  Other languages with similarly-derived words are German (farzen), Swedish (fjarta), Danish (fjerte), Russian (perdet), Polish (pierdziec), and Greek (pordizo).  Oh, and let's not forget English partridge!  Etymologically it is the "farting bird" because the name derives from Greek perdix, which refers to the whirring sound the bird makes when suddenly flushed out of hiding.  The Greeks thought it sounded like farting!\n\nWe can't move on before telling you that the earliest occurrence of a form of fart in the English written record comes from a song called The Cuckoo Song, or Sumer is icumen in, from about 1250:
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What pups? Who are you talking about? Where? How are we supposed to know this? Do you want to supply some usable details or are we just supposed to guess what you are talking about?
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The Pituco. I guess Pituco is some kind of nick name or something like that. Be Blessed!
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By far the most shocking one that I'd discovered was "feisty," which literally means "like a farting dog."  It comes from an abbreviation of the phrase "fisting hound" or "fisting dog," and "fist" was in this case a reference to breaking wind.  (Though "fist" was used in the phrase as a general pejorative, like if you tripped over the "fucking chair.")
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Just in case you wanted to know any more on the subject, the person above me copied his response directly from a website. The original article was written by Britt Scharringhausen. There are several more articles about similar subjects.\n\nAlso, Luna was the Latin name for the moon. The word 'lunacy' is derived from it. The Romans believed that the full moon sent people into a madness. That is how we got the modern concept of a werewolf.
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maybe naming the animals lol
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The name "earwig" is generally said to originate from an old European belief that earwigs crawl into people's ears and lay eggs in the brain. This etymology is given by the Oxford English Dictionary, which states unequivocally that the name is derived from Old English éare, "ear", and wicga, "insect", "from the notion that it penetrates into the head through the ear." Earwigs do tend to prefer being in hidden places, and this etymology parallels the unambiguous French name perce-oreille ("ear piercer"). Another hypothesis is that the word comes from the Late Latin auricula, owing to the ancient use of pulverized earwigs as medicine to treat diseases of the ear. A third explanation is that it is an alteration of "ear-wing", after the shape of the hind wings when unfolded.
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The acronym story is a complete fabrication from the middle of the 20th century.  It is completely false.\n\nThe word is the English cognate of the Proto-Germanic word *fukan 'have intercourse' which has its ultimate origin in Proto-Indo-European *pug- 'to strike' (compare English pugilist from Latin).  The English word f*ck derived according to regular sound laws from the Proto-Germanic form and there are cognate forms in most of the other Germanic languages.  It has moved in and out of vulgarity during its long reign in the Germanic languages.  In some time periods it was simply the normal term for breeding animals.  In Modern English it is moving out of being considered quite so vulgar since it is used so commonly.
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It's PETSMART.  It is a purposeful marketing tool that the name makes you think of two different positive connotations.
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The traditional story is in the article"What is a Flea Market" by Albert LaFarge. This article says, "There is a general agreement that the term "Flea Market" is a literal translation of the French marche aux puces, an outdoor bazaar in Paris, France, named after those pesky little parasites of the order Siphonaptera (or "wingless bloodsucker") that infested the upholstery of old furniture brought out for sale."\n          The second story is printed in the book Flea Markets in Europe published by Chartwell Books.  In the Introduction of this book, the author writes, "In the time of Emperor Napoleon III, the imperial architect Haussmann made plans for the broad, straight boulevards with rows of square houses in the center of Paris, along which army divisions could march with much pompous noise.  The plans forced many dealers in second-hand goods to flee their old dwellings; the alleys and slums were demolished. These dislodged merchants were, however, allowed to continue selling their wares undisturbed right in the north of Paris, just outside of the former fort, in front of the gate Porte de Clignancourt. The first stalls were erected in about 1860.  The gathering together of all these exiles from the slums of Paris was soon given the name "Marche aux Puces", meaning "flee market", later translation, "Flea Market."  Regardless of the origin or the definition of flea markets, I have never heard of anyone who did not love to go to a marche aux puces.
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Family Dog.\n\nIt was produced by Tim Burton and created by Brad Bird (Incredibles).  It was first part of "Amazing Stories" and then became a short lived series.
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Hot dogs were frequently known as frankfurters or franks, but the name "hot dog" became popular by the early 1900s. The origin of this name is not precisely known, but at that time hot dogs were often marketed as "dachshund sausages" since they resemble the dog breed of that name. Hot dog lore suggests that newspaper cartoonist Tad Dorgan coined (or at least popularized) the term "hot dog" when he used it in the caption of a 1906 cartoon illustrating sausage vendors at the Polo Grounds baseball stadium because he couldn't spell "dachshund." However, this rumored cartoon has never been located; as well, the phrase "hot dog" appears in print as early as 1895, in the Yale Record of New Haven, Connecticut). While "hot dog" remains by far the most commonly heard term in spoken language, people buying them in grocery stores need to know that they are still almost always labelled as "franks", which is rarely heard in actual speech.