Gunnie, Gunney, Guny, Gunny?????????

[chip]

Not only how do you spell it?

How did it come about?

What is a Gunnie, Gunney,Guny or Gunny?

How many fill a sack?

Have any of you heard of a Gunnie, Gunney, Guny or a Gunny, sack?

Any farmers?

What the heck is a Gunnie etc., etc., etc.?

Curious minds want to know!!!!

Art

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[Rob Z]

Art

What have you been into?

You should know that a gunney is an ass kicking NCO in the Marine Corps.

[cx]

No, no, Rob, he's got a good question there - not that I'm disputin' that it sounds like he's been into somethin', mind you.

All my young life people carried stuff in a gunnie/guny/gunny sack, and it had nothing to do with Gunnery Sergeants (however you spell those).

It's like a toe/tote sack down south, I guess.

Up north it was a cloth feed-bag, usually burlap, but it was surely called a gunny sack.

What do it mean?

[Rob Z]

OK. My dictionary says "a coarse fabric made of jute or hemp". From the Hindi for "sack".

Is it any coincidence that Art's most obtuse ramblings are about a fabric that is made from hemp? I don't think so. Does Bonsal have a routine testing prodedure for its employees?

[cx]

Well that's nice Rob, but WHAT is "a coarse fabric...."? How did they spell it?

I never thought to look it up in a dictionary, Art, did you? I didn't think it were a real word, I s'pose.

Them school teachers, they know about them books, eh?

[Rob Z]

Kelly

Somehow I feel that I have let you down. And I thought I was doing so well....

I have no more answers.

[cx]

It's GUNNY, Art, I had to look it up myownself.

Meriam (who John claims is a Yankee) actually has the term Gunny Sack listed as - ready? - a sack made of gunny.

We live. We learn.

Now I gotta know, Art. Why did you axe that question? Did you know along and were just testin' us?

[tileprof]

Art...1 more shot of tequilia?......and no putting it in your gunnie sack!!!!!!

[chip]

No!!

I don't think I know as yet.

A sack of Gunny?

Is Gunny a fabric? Coarse in nature?

If so, where did the term come from?

Did a Mr./ Mrs./ Ms./ Miss Gunny develope it?

I was conversing with a good friend of mine last evening, and used the term. It was one of those times in life, where you say a word and question it's origin.

No Tequilla or hemp, was involved. Several "Busch lights", but none of the former.

Hey!! Curious minds are afire.

Art

[Bud Cline]

I've suspected Art was smoking something from time to time, now I know.

"Art smokes gunny sacks"!!!

[Bud Cline]

"Gunny sack" has nothing to do with guns. Gunny sacks are large bags made with very coarse cloth, usually woven from either jute or hemp, and often used for packing agricultural products such as sugar or grain for shipment. Gunny sacks have been around a very long time, as you might guess from the fact that "gunny" comes directly from the ancient Sanskrit word "goni," meaning "sack". The English version "gunny" first appeared around 1711, evidently adapted from the Hindi by British merchants importing goods from India.

Now what else Art.....I'm busy?

[JC]

The hindus or Indians probably invented them coz that is the world headquaters for jute production, Which is a form of hemp. So I guess it is easy to believe they also named the sacks.

[John Bridge]

Not just the Hindus, though. As a history buff, I've got to tell you that hemp was one of George Washington's major crops. Jefferson and the other Virginians raised it also.

Now as to whether they smoked it? Well . . .

[Bud Cline]

John,

Do you know what George Washington said to his men just before crossing the Delaware?

[JC]

John I beleive it is not the same hemp. The jute variety is grown in india and in parts of south america.

Same family, differant plant.

Interesting though, Jefferson had an interacial relationship and also grew cannabis? A real homeboy aye?

[Bud Cline]

Did you guys know that stuff (cannabis) grows wild around here? It's in all the country road ditches? In the fall of the year when all the corn has been picked farmers graze their cattle on the cornstalks for a few weeks. In places where the cannabis is thriving at fieldside they burn it off. The stuff is "loco weed" to cattle. Driving the country roads here in the fall of the year brings back memories.

The quality of the "wild weed" is very poor. Low THC or something like that, so it is useless. Thing is, out-of-town youngsters passing thru and not familiar with our strain of cannibus think they have won the lottery when they discover the stuff growing wild here. It carries the same penalties of law as any of the good stuff. So often out-of-staters get busted here for gathering bunches from the roadside, and all for nothing.

Enterprising out-of-state growers have been known to come here to lease land to grow the-good-stuff thinking they can say it is growing wild if they get caught. This state has a Drug Taskforce that monitors the abundant crops from a helicopter, and they know where it all is. For a period of weeks during harvest time daily flights are made and few get away with their crop.

[Rob Z]

Friends of mine that are "in the know" about this kinda stuff tell me the same thing is true in the woods around here.

I was working at a customer's house in Springfield VA a few years back, and out back, by the deck, surrounded by corn and green bean plants, is a patch about 15' x 25' of the stuff. His house is about 150' from I-95!

I was down in the basement washing my trowels in the laundry tub, and I see an empty 5 gallon bucket. (recall my earlier posting about being a bucket whore). So, I go over to pick it up and requisition it, and there's about 3 inches of a plant material in the bottom of it. I said "(Customer), what the hell is this?" He said "Holy shit, I've been looking all over for that batch. gimme that!"

I didn't get the perfectly good bucket.

[Edited by Rob Zschoche on 08-27-2001 at 12:59 AM]

[Bud Cline]

If you had thought quick enough you could have abscounded with that bucket, sounds like it might have been about a $600 buscket.

[Rob Z]

Bud

I think plenty quick, but I don't want to get involved with that shit.