[SEL] Pull your chain ? OT

jlb94 at juno.com jlb94 at juno.com
Sat Feb 5 12:19:32 PST 2011


Thanks Arnie for the reply.  But - The way I got it was from an old coal miner.

They used to have a "Potty Car" in the coal mines similar to a "half-height Porta-John" where the miners could stand and pee or sit and do their business.  Now understand that rail tracks are not level in the coal mines and the miners would carry a small length of chain which they laid on the track to stop the "Potty-Car" from rolling away as they did their business.   Now - To be a jerk, somone  would pull out the chain and his "buddy" would be rolling down the slope of the coal mine.

And that's the rest of the story !

  

Joe "Pip" Betz said that. 
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---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Arnie Fero" <fero_ah at city-net.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Subject: Re: [SEL] Pull your chain ? OT
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:02:04 -0500

Here's one...

Meaning: To take advantage of someone in an unfair way to do something to annoy
someone; to tease or needle someone just to get a reaction from them.

Origin: This North American slang originated in the 1980s as an expression for
someone who is trying to annoy or get a reaction from someone else. Feisty,
formidable Charlotte Whitton, the former mayor of Ottawa, was introduced to the
mayor of London, England. He was bedecked in all the medals and chains of his
office, while she had only a flower in her lapel. "There was something fitting,
about this, wasn?t there," the London mayor asked. "After all, what was Ottawa, a
city of 600,000, compared to London, twelve million?" He leaned forward and said
most haughtily, ?If I sniff your rose, will you blush?? Charlotte replied, ?And if I
pull your chain, will you flush??



On Fri, February 4, 2011 10:06 am, jlb94 at juno.com wrote:
> Hi list -
> In reading this thread I saw the term, "Pull your chain".
> Who knows where the term "Pull Your Chain - or - Pull My Chain, came from ?


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