NPPF Re: Notes C.1-4 - C.42

[Jasper Fidget]

Reminds me of that Grateful Dead lyric "jump like a Willys in four wheel
drive."  A Stumpjumper is also apparently a mountain bike and an airboat.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MdShrk1 [mailto:mdshrk1 at writeonill.org]
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: Pynchon List; Jasper Fidget
> Subject: Re: NPPF Re: Notes C.1-4 - C.42
> 
> Jasper,
> 
> In Humboldt County, a "stump jumper" is an old beat up pick-up, usually 4
> wheel drive, that is used to tear through the logging roads, etc.
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> Tim Mooney
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jasper Fidget" <jasper at hatguild.org>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 10:02 AM
> Subject: RE: NPPF Re: Notes C.1-4 - C.42
> 
> 
> > >
> > > >>>pg 76
> > > "Southey's Lingo-Grande ('Dear Stumparumper,' etc)": I have
> > > no idea other than Lingo-Grande == Great (or large) Language
> > > (or lick)?  "Dear Stumparumper" sounds German, der Stümper
> > > (blunderer) and der Rumpf (body,
> > > torso) maybe?<<<
> > >
> >
> > But then there's this:
> >
> > "stump jumper: US colloq. a person from a rural area, a hillbilly" (OED)
> >
> >
> >
>