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Something Rhymes with Purple

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Cherry Picking

Ceris for cherry is c e r i s now, you might be rights. Let's keep that bit in a sherry picking though. Where does that come frome? Well, the first reference that the dictionary has is from 19 forty and it's from the railroad magazine. And talks about a cherry picker being a switch man - so called because of red lights on the switch stands. Any railroad man who is always figuring on the best jobs and side stepping undesirable ones would also be called a cherry pickers. According to this a cord based on the old saying, life is a bowl of cherries. Because it's so sweet, sweet. Yes, sweet and jammy

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