Saturday, October 17, 2009
Rampion
Rampion is a bell shaped flower whose roots are used in salad. Not by me but I'm sure they're a treat for some obscure salad lovers. Perhaps some of the word imps have eaten rampion roots. Please tell. The impish meanings were well crafted, as always and, for the second day in a row, everybody loves Brian! You are the poll winner again, man! Great work.
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Rampion is the fancy official definition for that rubber thing people put on their index or middle finger (depending on their own personal preference)when they are counting money or shuffling paper. Usually mass produced in orange, some people in upper management have a ponceau rampion, which of course is a bright red colour.
Everyone has a rampion among their acquaintance. This is someone whose main talent seems to be winning obscure and arguably pointless board games.
Rampion (n) A type of dance performed by slightly inebriated couples at the end of a Saturday night in a night club. Somtimes the rampion can end up being a a bit lascivious and the dancers may well end up being thrown out!
The rampion was originally a weapon used in ancient times against cavalry. It was a heavy, prism-shaped piece of wood with a sharp metal blade on the top. The idea was to throw it in front of the enemy, and horribly injure their horses as they unwittingly stepped onto the blade.
Happily for horse lovers, the rampion was rarely used, because it's bulk and weight made it impractical to carry around. However, in Medieval times they realised that if they used a blunt piece of metal and fixed the rampion in place, horses would not be injured, but would still slow down as they walked (or galloped over it).
Rampions were installed anywhere that speeding horses were likely to be dangerous, such as entrances to castles and on some town streets, and constitute the earliest known form of road-safety measures.
Once there was a karate teacher and a kid. Cars weren't invented yet. But the kid was to do something repetitive and useful, and it was to ramp, on with one hand, and off with the other. Rampion, rampioff; rampion;rampioff. For hours.
A rampion is a kind of dance. 5 people in a group circle around doing random arm movments while grapvining with thier feet. The dancers wear brightly coloured dresses or suits with silver patterns embrodered in them.
It isn't a very popular dance but the people who can rampion are very talented.
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