When I first came to London looking for a job in 1981 I was offered the chance to become a commodity broker. I'd never heard of that so I asked. When they said "oh, you know, buying and selling pork belly" I replied "you mean, a butcher's boy? No thanks!".
If only I'd taken the job I could have made millions, spent a few years in an open prison and been out on parole by now. B > On 3 Aug 2015, at 17:03, Donald Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very interesting John, the things I learn here. In Iowa pork bellies are > traded on the commodities market or used to be so that was my 1st thought. > >> On 8/2/15 7:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 5 >> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:25:10 -0400 >> From: John<[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Geso :Tour De Farms >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed >> >> I vaguely remember from my school days that "Pork Bellies" was a >> derisive slang term for the sutlers & other camp-following "merchants" >> who trailed along behind the the Union Armies during the American Civil >> War ... derived from the belly being the lowest part of the pig. >> >> Today they'd be described as whale-shit, there being nothing lower >> because it's on the bottom of the ocean. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
