From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
Cc: TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Shower of Dogs.
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:57:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiV1xac=3JUCHP=wDOThBf4+ofAu0vAmgoEWTDnBC=r50g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5CA5357-0541-4B62-B7EE-94D117A7D75C@humeweb.com>
Lorinda kept dobermans as household pets and show dogs. She even had
an RV for taking them to exhibit in distant shows. She eventually
switched to rescuing retired racing greyhounds and sold the RV.
Doug
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:09 AM Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com> wrote:
>
> lorinda was an avid dog owner.
> she spent a long time recycling racing greyhounds.
> she would own a few of these at any one time
>
> > On Feb 16, 2022, at 6:05 AM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Doug wrote:
> >> Then, while there were several pilots among us,
> >> there was only one shower of dogs
> >
> > What's a shower of dogs refer to in this context?
> >
> > I've been mulling it over for a while. I checked Wiktionary for shower
> > and dogs and nothing obvious pops out as to what the phrase may mean in
> > American to this English speaker.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers, Ralph.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-15 22:31 [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry Douglas McIlroy
2022-02-15 23:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-15 23:43 ` Jim Capp
2022-02-15 23:51 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-16 0:54 ` Will Senn
2022-02-16 2:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-16 0:09 ` George Michaelson
2022-02-16 0:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-16 7:54 ` arnold
2022-02-16 8:13 ` markus schnalke
2022-02-16 14:54 ` Leah Neukirchen
2022-02-16 22:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-16 22:40 ` Andrew Diller
2022-02-17 10:14 ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2022-02-17 15:50 ` Adam Thornton
2022-02-17 20:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-17 10:24 ` Andy Kosela
2022-02-17 16:05 ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-17 16:38 ` Warner Losh
2022-02-16 22:42 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-16 22:56 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-16 23:49 ` Paul Winalski
2022-02-16 23:49 ` [TUHS] Benchmarks Bakul Shah
2022-02-17 1:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-17 12:36 ` [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry Stuart Remphrey
2022-02-17 19:59 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-02-17 21:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-17 21:44 ` Bakul Shah
2022-02-18 8:33 ` Otto Moerbeek
2022-02-22 10:39 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-22 15:53 ` Otto Moerbeek
2022-02-20 17:29 ` Derek Fawcus
2022-02-17 22:00 ` David Arnold
2022-02-18 9:58 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-02-16 14:34 ` [TUHS] dc after bc Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-16 19:08 ` [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry Diomidis Spinellis
2022-02-16 20:55 ` John P. Linderman
2022-02-16 21:17 ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-16 21:59 ` Marshall Conover
2022-02-17 5:51 ` arnold
2022-02-17 22:09 ` Will Senn
2022-02-16 0:35 ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-16 8:02 ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-02-16 14:05 ` [TUHS] Shower of Dogs Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-16 14:09 ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-16 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-16 16:57 ` Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2022-02-16 17:03 ` Dennis Boone
2022-02-16 17:18 ` Warner Losh
2022-02-16 14:09 ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-16 14:35 ` Ron Natalie
2022-02-16 14:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-16 15:08 ` Rich Morin
2022-02-16 21:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-16 21:25 ` John Cowan
2022-02-17 3:31 ` Chet Ramey
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