Best of SRWP Vol. 3
Something Rhymes with Purple
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What Is a Jerk?
Susie dent and i appear on televison this country. This means i'm sent on journeys by television companies. And often there are these heritage railways that actually have old, genuine old steam trains. It's very exciting, and the steam is so beautiful,. it is evocative, nostalgic, speaks of another era. If i tell you one interesting word that might possibly have a link to steam trains, and that is jerk. Jerk washer was the name for a kind of insignificant town in the us. Of a jerk water was a kind of remote place where early railway engines would dip a bucket into a stream and jerk it out by a rope. So jerk water towns came to be
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