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

[MdShrk1]

This is after all, maybe Zoyd's cabin, "a run-down shack in Bigfoot County."
GD, "Brown-eyed Woman."

Tim
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Subject: RE: NPPF Re: Notes C.1-4 - C.42


> 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.
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> > -----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
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> > Jasper,
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> > 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.
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> > Respectfully,
> >
> > Tim Mooney
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> > 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
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> > > > >>>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?<<<
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> > >
> > > But then there's this:
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> > > "stump jumper: US colloq. a person from a rural area, a hillbilly"
(OED)
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