Comments on: Thingamajig Thursday: grommets and fungo bats

By: Scot

Scot — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:38:07 +0000

grommet is also used to describe a young surfer. I asked, “why grommet?” and never what felt like a solid answer. One old soul told me though, it was since they stuck to the wave… like i said, talking about surfing is not alway solid, but it IS fun.

By: David

David — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:22:13 +0000

Thanks Trena! I’m glad I’m not the only one…

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:27:22 +0000

Cheese, Gromit! Cheese!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:23:31 +0000

Comment on Rat hole. I’ve never used that term, but in the Marines we used rat-F…
When I was a radio man on a late night shift, the Gunnery Sargent told me you can have another box of sea rations, but don’t rat-F it. As in don’t eat some of it and leave the rest like a rat might do.
That term was also applied to when an area looked in disrepair…

By: Trena

Trena — Thu, 17 May 2007 17:14:24 +0000

I, too, had forgotten about Thingamajig Thursdays. Sadly, I cannot blame my age for my memory slippage – perhaps that great chunk of wisdom got pushed out by bigger and badder chunks of _flossness. Thanks for the thinamajigs today – this make my day! (yes, low standards, but I digress)

By: natlynn

natlynn — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:22:49 +0000

There are grommets on all sorts of fun, everyday things…my home is grommetted-up with: shower curtain grommets, normal curtain grommets, tote bag grommets, shoe grommets (after all, holes for shoelaces are often just very small grommets).

By: Bassman

Bassman — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:56:11 +0000

Grommets aren’t just on belts. They are on all sorts of manly things like workboots and tarps, and patriotic stuff like flags.