Butter-Bag(s)

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

David Gilligan wrote:

> However, according to Diedrich Knickerbocker in the History of New York 
> (1809), *butter-bags* refers to men who jog around in shorts that are 
> much too big for them (p.538).

Much preferable to modern-day Florida, where pot-bellied 70 yr old men
(and women) jog around in T-backs.  I won't say what people call them.

DK was Washington Irving (or is that Irving Washington?), I believe.

	Steve Maas