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Tough Sledding?

Where did this originate?
And as an aside - how is sledding tough? Sledding is fung! Unless they are talking about dog sledding?
  

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[nq:1]Where did this originate? [/nq] What if there are rocks on the ground? I went sledding in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, a couple times.

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  • [nq:1]Where did this originate?
  • [/nq] What if there are rocks on the ground?
  • I went sledding in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, a couple times.
  • There is no big, treeless hill, afaik, and instead the kids would sled down a rather steep wooded hill, across a 6 foot wide path that was horizontal from side to side, and because of that, the sled would go flying into the air as the ground beneath dropped down as a continuation of the hill.
  • It was a second or two before the sled hit the ground, and you had to be sure to tuck your elbows in or they would get hit by the ground first.
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[nq:1]Where did this originate? And as an aside - how is sledding tough?[/nq]
What if there are rocks on the ground?
I went sledding in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, a couple times.

There is no big, treeless hill, afaik, and instead the kids would sled down a rather steep wooded hill, across a 6 foot wide path that was horizontal from side to side, and because of that, the sled would g
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[nq:1]Where did this originate? And as an aside - how is sledding tough? Sledding is fung![/nq]
I think you forgot the "i".
[nq:1]Unless they are talking about dog sledding?[/nq]
Is that a declarative clause in interrogative clothing?

Bill
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[nq:2]And as an aside - how is sledding tough? Sledding is fung![/nq]
[nq:1]I think you forgot the "i".[/nq]
Sledding is fuing? SLEDDING IS FOO!
I have to guess this is just an arbitrary substitution for the obvious rude word with the same initial letter.
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[nq:2]I think you forgot the "i".[/nq]
[nq:1]Sledding is fuing? SLEDDING IS FOO![/nq]
I was thinking of "fungi".
[nq:1]I have to guess this is just an arbitrary substitution for the obvious rude word with the same initial letter.[/nq]
Or he just accidentally forgot the "cki". I hadn't thought of that possibility.
Bill
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Just to perplex the BrEs here, maybe he left off an "o". After all, gravity is involved in both.
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[nq:1]Or he just accidentally forgot the "cki".[/nq]
Sleddicking?
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[nq:1]Where did this originate? And as an aside - how is sledding tough? Sledding is fung! Unless they are talking about dog sledding?[/nq]
A sled is any vehicle that slides rather than rolling. See for example
, especially the second and third pictures.

Jerry Friedman
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[nq:2]Where did this originate? And as an aside - how is sledding tough? Sledding is fung! Unless they are talking about dog sledding?[/nq]
[nq:1]A sled is any vehicle that slides rather than rolling. See for example , especially the second and third pictures.[/nq]
And in BrFarmingE you can have a big steel sled (note: not "sledge") pulled by a tractor: much bigger than the Australian hors
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[nq:2]Or he just accidentally forgot the "cki".[/nq]
[nq:1]Sleddicking?[/nq]
LOL. Hmmm, that sounds like something I wouldn't say in polite company.
Bill
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Bill McCray filted:
[nq:2]Sledding is fung![/nq]
[nq:1]I think you forgot the "i".[/nq]
No, shui is fung!...r

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