So Mr. Greenman-Webster, we install heads under garage doors and ducts over 4' wide, etc. Are these ceilings? Are we assuming these to act as "heat collectors" to possible set off a sprinkler in the event of a fire beneath?
For the record, I have lived my entire life in New England and I have never referred to any of my girlfriends or mistresses as "goombahs". Nor have any of my friends or acquaintances confided that term to me in respect to their female compatriots. Perhaps some time in the north end of Boston or Federal Hill in Providence would set the record straight. Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT www.fpdc.com 860-535-2080 (ofc) > On Mar 24, 2014, at 2:21 PM, "Steve Leyton" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Is this on topic? > > I just want to apologize again for dropping an f-bomb on the Forum over the > weekend. It was my intent to tease Mr. Greenman in the presumed vernacular > of a "goombah", hence my choice of words. > > SL > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > rongreenman . > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 11:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: heat collector vs heat director > > From a quick interweb search: > > This slang term probably originates from the Italian word compare (or the > Sicilian cognate, "cumpari", both akin to Spanish compadre), which was > already (and still is) used in south Italy abbreviated in cumpà and literally > means "friend" and it is used colloquially mainly to address people living in > the same town. This, changed through the Italo-American tendency to > substitute g's for c's and b's for p's in colloquial speech, yields "goombah." > > Also talked about it being a term for girlfriend or mistress and that it was > most commonly used in the NE. So maybe Mrs. Palmero is the goombah, not Tony, > but by the way he writes it certainly seems to put him somewhere between > Boston and Philly. > > Disclaimer: As redattore capo of the Greenman Dictionary I must disclose that > this is someone else's opinion of derivation and usage. Growing up in the > Temescal District of Oakland ( _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
