Hunt the pobble - what does the team think?

AWG · Post by **AWG** » 29 Apr 2004, 23:06

Regret to inform that "pobble" is a pre-existing word but this coinage is new. It was used at least 10 years ago by Mike Rosewell the rowing correspondent of the Times to describe the wind disturbed surface of a rowing course. My old BX hydraulic pump used to go "shlshlshlshlshl" and it didn't even need fava beans and a nice Chianti to do it.

DLM · Post by **DLM** » 30 Apr 2004, 00:44

Edward Lear had something to say about pobbles AFAIR, but I have spent many happy hours at Pobbles Bay, just to the East of Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower Peninsular in South Wales. No Citroens to be seen there, just lots of sand and waves.

uhn113x · Post by **uhn113x** » 30 Apr 2004, 13:04

Don't see a pobble for years, then three come at once......[:(][:(]
Darren - I think your last suggestion is probably correct! [;)]

Paulee · Post by **Paulee** » 01 May 2004, 02:18

isn't pobbles bread with warm milk ?

uhn113x · Post by **uhn113x** » 01 May 2004, 13:45

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Paulee
It's probably one of those things like baps/teacakes/barm cakes/bread cakes/muffins that have umpteen different names in different regions. Here 'oop north' it is 'pobs' [:D]
Not that I have ever tried it, you understand [;)]
As for the ZX pobble, I may be hunting it today, if time [:)]

alan s · Post by **alan s** » 01 May 2004, 15:25

WE could be onto a winner here;
A board game "Hunt the Pobble."
A food for the "in-set."
A new word for the Oxford Dictionary
A new word to help win a game of scrabble.
A suggested name for a new car; "I drive a VW Pobble."
A final question for "Who wants to be a Millionaire." (Define one)
d'ya reckon we ought to copyright it?[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Alan S [8D][;)][:o)]

uhn113x · Post by **uhn113x** » 01 May 2004, 20:32

Hi Alan
Yeah - go for it!
A board game "Hunt the Pobble." - Good idea
A food for the "in-set." - Kippers and custard
A new word for the Oxford Dictionary - Drizzerable
A new word to help win a game of scrabble. - Quondam
A suggested name for a new car; "I drive a VW Pobble." - No worse than Sharan and Kangoo [;)]
A final question for "Who wants to be a Millionaire." (Define one) - Who was the Austrian diplomat whose daughter gave her name to a car? Emil Jellinek - daughter's name was Mercedes.
Back on topic: Today was the start of the open season of the annual Liversedge pobble hunt.
A pobble has been identified. See driveshaft topic.