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Stapler956 commented on the word stoughton bottle
I saw one, my first, last weekend at the 200 year old Blue Hill Farm, Strafford, NH. The young couple who recently bought the farm found the bottle sitting on the front porch!#discuss'>"dumb as a Stoughton bottle," a phrase long forgotten from the colonial era. Stoughton bottles may derive as Thurber writes in qroqqa's post. The bottles were large, earthen, heavy and had a narrow neck; of nominal worth after their original contents (rum, I thought, before reading Thurber) were consumed. Often thereafter used as a doorstop, they were inert obstacles that frequently either caused, or suffered abuse from inattentive passersby.
I saw one, my first, last weekend at the 200 year old Blue Hill Farm, Strafford, NH. The young couple who recently bought the farm found the bottle sitting on the front porch!
August 29, 2017