At a recent HAA meeting here, at home an hour ago, I explained my problem to a more citified membership. HAA stands for Hicks Anonymous Association. I'd been watching a video clip about something so riveting that I clicked off as a commercial yelled midway through: "Let me tell you about a GROUND-BREAKING TOOTHBRUSH..." Somehow that stuck in my hick mind, overwhelming the tutorial it interrupted, causing me to ask Norma if she'd mind taking a photo of my most trusted ground-breaking device:
I am afraid to go back and watch the whole commercial.
My word what are you up to with such machinery Geo? Are you gardening or do a excavation? I not sure...but this look like it would chip your teeth but good.
ReplyDeleteMy dear Maddie, correct on all counts. The over-use of "ground-breaking" as an adjective increased hugely in the the latter half of the 20th century --causing a substantial interruption of my adolescence, which I'm now happy to resume.
DeleteGraphic evidence of an earth-disturbing mentality! But making the ground shake is better than ripping into your molars. Leave the latter to the practitioners of what are curiously referred to as "the dental arts".
ReplyDeleteDear Bruce, Indeed! The gardening tool industry has not, so far as we know, ever advertised a MOLAR-RIPPING ground-breaker --it has a similar threat to it.
DeleteMy husband liked a rototiller more than any other machinery he ever used. And he used all from small to huge.
ReplyDeleteUnderstandable, dear Emma. Rototillers revolutionized garden jobs, at home and at work. As a long-time gardener of public places, I could not have cared for baseball diamonds etc. in a more efficient way. Field sports, where people must slide into bases or land from broad-jumps are made safe with rototillers.
DeleteNever use a toothbrush to break ground or a rototiller to clean teeth - that's my motto (a motto newly minted after reading this post!)
ReplyDeleteFifty years is a long time for your Rotovator to keep working. You must have taken very good care of it.
O_Jenny, I hope that motto becomes the heart of an international agreement --diplomacy will never suffer from it.
DeleteAnd yes, we have taken very good care of Rotovator.
I would be very hesitant to use a ground-breaking toothbrush on myself - - but it would probably work wonders on all the gigantic weeds and obstinate monstrosities growing here on my property in the TN boonies.
ReplyDeleteYour caution of ground-breaking toothbrushes is clearly warranted (at least until grammarians decide on a plural --toothbrushes or teethbrush?-- but "obstinate monstrocities"? Those are the booming giants that stand at my gate and loudly demand I sell them my '71 VW Van. I could improve them with Rotovator but haven't reached that point yet.
Delete"Heavens to Murgatroyd!" to quote Snagglepuss. I've spent many hours in the grip of a Rototiller and the only dental application of note is teeth rattling.
ReplyDeleteDear Tom, I remember Snagglepuss well! Only now have I traced Murgatroyd back to the 1300s: (Norse)a forest clearing on the road to the moor. If teeth-rattling is the only ill-effect, you are using your tiller correctly.
DeleteHeh heh...I have some disposable brushes to take on a trip.
ReplyDeleteI did not have a childhood on the farm. But you should see me now!
Dear Susan, disposable brushes are a wise travel precaution. I too have moved farther into the sticks, but Urban Sprawl --a monster flick of the future-- keeps chasing me.
DeleteMy teeth like a challenge! Looking forward to rotovating our land more though :-)
ReplyDeleteDear Lisa, I wish you well on tilling your new property. To expand on a Wild West idiom, rotovators bite the dust a whole lot easier than teeth.
DeleteThat is sage advice, I shall heed it xx
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