Your Kidding...Right?

Walking day and The Boss’s fruitphone had doubts about the wether.
It was basically wether it was going to rain or not I think, so the walkers decided that they would stay local so they could run for cover…Coffee if necessary.

This was our lunch spot…theirs…and I eyed a lot of orange peeling and other grub centric activities to no avail and finally as we packed up and left there was this pic right in front of us (so to bark) and the fruit phone struck again.
And altho it looked and felt a bit cold, and was blowing heaps, there was only a drop or two of rain the Coffee won the day but there was a deep sense of deprivation when chocolate sprats replaced the home made marshmallows in the Hot Chocolate.

Sometimes I worry about the suffering that the group incurs taking me out.

There are sometimes scintillating conversations in the group and during a demonstration of hands free texting by The Boss the origin of “Just Kidding” was debated.

The Fruitphone revealed 
Kid - to hoax in English by 1811; a hoax or instance of joshing (teasing) by 1873; kidder, 1896. To kid or lie to oneself, not face facts, 1860. To kid along, an American expression, 1920. It comes from kid meaning child or young goat, so to kid someone is to make a child or goat of that person. From "Listening to America" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1982). Page 85.
Kid - young goat, probably before 1200. Extended use meaning child, slang use 1599, established informal use, 1841. To tease playfully or joke, 1839. Earlier in thieves' slang, to coax, wheedle, hoax or humbug, 1811. From "Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology" by Robert K. Barnhart (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1995). Page 412.

Consider your life enriched…Woof…Absolutely!

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