You’re probably right, after all, Forrest Gumbo did start a shrimp company with his pal Bubba.
And he was cheerful doing it as well. Forrest never was a gump.
As I recall, he was excellent at maintaining his uniform and rifle while in the army; the very antithesis of the sloppily-dressed, slouching grump. (Which is a word usually applied to women, anyway.)
Why should that be? Either a man or a woman should have a frump, a part of the body also variously referred to as buttocks, derriere, ass, etc.
That’s not nice.** Rump** of the Bailey may have been a bit of a curmudgeon, but he was hardly an ass.
You’d be curmudgeonly if your clothes were always rumpoled. Didn’t She Who Must Be Obeyed own a flat-iron?
Well, in my family, She Who Must Bake Christmas Cookies prepared some rumples this year. I think she used Bacardi in addition to the cocoa and nuts.
I remember as a kid in the 1980’s some stores still had the machines where you could put a penny in them and get a Ford brand rum ball in return. Of course, the flavor in those things lasted all of a minute.
That’s right, Bryant Gumball was the host of the today show in the 80s, wasn’t he?
Did he host, too? I mostly remember him fighting George Foreman in the Gumble in the Jungle.
Did you lose money betting on that fight? Oh well, that’s the way the cookie rumbles.
If I remember rightly, crumble has nothing to do with cookies but everything to do with apples - it’s a humorous Discworld analogue of applejack that induces instant drunkenness, and that’s the least of its evils.
And the drunkenness will make you scumble around and knock into things.
Didn’t Boy George and Culture Club do that song I’ll Stumble 4 Ya?
When Boy George stumbled, did he fall down and land on a tumble bed?
That would have been real Trundle - with a capital T that rhymes with P that stands for pool!
'Appen as I know a Yorkshire lad as telled me that trouble were t’Russian money.
Russian money? I always thought a ruble was Indian currency.
No, I think RuPee always gets paid in American dollars for his female impersonations.
RuPaul was a female impersonator? That’s the first I’ve heard of that – I always saw that cartoon canine on surfing and skateboarding T-shirts.