Coconut shy!?!?

dimestore typed thus:
[nq:1]This week's New Yorker quotes Paul Burrell, "A Royal Duty" author. "I'm in a coconut shy, and people are throwing these ***** at me." I don't understand this metaphor.[/nq]
A coconut shy is a fairground stall. Coconuts are place on the top of short poles; for a fee you can throw ***** at the coconuts. If you knock one off its pole, you get to keep it.
The ve

[nq:1]This week's New Yorker quotes Paul Burrell, "A Royal Duty" author. "I'm in a coconut shy, and people are throwing these ***** at me." I don't understand this metaphor. Thank you for you time, -dimestore[/nq]
'To shy' means 'to throw quickly' or 'to throw (an object) with a jerk'.

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coconut shy
noun a fairground stall in which ***** are thrown to knock coconuts

Yes... But how do you make a coconut shy?

[nq:1]Yes... But how do you make a coconut shy?[/nq]
Embarrass it?
Mike
[nq:2]'To shy' means 'to throw quickly' or 'to throw (an ... Paul Burrell is complaining that people are, metaphorically, throwing[/nq]
[nq:1]*****[/nq]
[nq:2]at him just for fun, without justification. Peter Duncanson UK (posting from a.e.u)[/nq]
M.J.Powell

[nq:2]This week's New Yorker quotes Paul Burrell, "A Royal Duty" ... don't understand this metaphor. Thank you for you time, -dimestore[/nq]
[nq:1]'To shy' means 'to throw quickly' or 'to throw (an object) with a jerk'. From http://www.wordreference.com/definition/coconut+shy.htm coconut shy n

[nq:2]Yes... But how do you make a coconut shy?[/nq]
[nq:1]Embarrass it? Mike[/nq]
Coming next:
'How do you make a Venetian Blind?'
'How do you make a Maltese Cross?'
DC

[nq:1]Coming next: 'How do you make a Venetian Blind?' 'How do you make a Maltese Cross?'[/nq]
'How do you make a hormone?'

Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place Did he update http://home.earthlink.net/~debu4335/ yet?

[nq:2]Coming next: 'How do you make a Venetian Blind?' 'How do you make a Maltese Cross?'[/nq]
[nq:1]'How do you make a hormone?'[/nq]
Refuse to pay?
Mike

M.J.Powell

[nq:2]'To shy' means 'to throw quickly' or 'to throw (an ... metaphorically, throwing ***** at him just for fun, without justification.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd think there's a lot of justification in throwing just about anything at the man. DC[/nq]
Agreed.

Peter Duncanson
UK
(posting from a.e.u)

[nq:2]Coming next: 'How do you make a Venetian Blind?' 'How do you make a Maltese Cross?'[/nq]
[nq:1]'How do you make a hormone?'[/nq]
Ah yes. You can't hear a vitamin.
DC