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AG: Squirrel!
On Sun, 29 May 2016 14:17:11 +0700, John B.
wrote: What is a "Newspaper sleeve"? It sounds like some sort of paper bag? On rainy days, the paper boy delivers our paper in a long, narrow plastic bag. I've become accustomed to referring to plastic bags of this shape as "sleeves", as in "we have twelve sleeves of paper cups". That meaning of "sleeve" would be a good topic to post on alt.usage.english, but that group has too much traffic already. A newspaper sleeve makes a good bootie for riding in bitterly-cold weather, but we've moved a few miles south of where we used to live, so I no longer need shoe covers. I haven't shaken the habit of not throwing them out, and I don't need many for snack organizers and map covers, so I've collected a grocery bag full. But now that I have given up wearing shoes, I might need the bread-bag trick next winter. (The traditional shoe cover was a bread bag.) For walking to the church on a slushy day a few years ago, I pulled newspaper sleeves over my heavy socks, then held the bags in place with black nylon knee socks, the cheap, thin kind that won't hold much water. Then sandals over that. It kept my feet warmer than my snow boots. For cycling, one puts them on over the shoes -- and carries spares for the trip back. Slot cleats cut a hole in the plastic in exactly the right place; I don't know whether the trick would work with clipless cleats. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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