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To: E. Charters who wrote (6115)	1/4/2005 3:17:30 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 8273

Flapjack is claimed as a logging term, i think .... from south of the border, down Backeast way .... logging came before mining, you know, and is obviously more important - imagine trying to mine with all those trees in the way, without lumber for camp and equipment and pit props ... that said, thank you for the steel, that we don't have to rub the wood down with sharp rocks ... oh, what jolly luck, googling with 'logging terms flapjacks' we get this first hit - 'The value of wood cut from 1849 to 1900 exceeded in value all of the gold produced during the same years. In fact, Michigan’s "green gold" brought in one billion dollars MORE than the California gold rush. Michigan produced more than 5.5 billion board feet of lumber.' [...] 'Like most professions, logging had its own unique vocabulary. The terms were as varied as the men who used them. Many words today are derived from those log camp terms: flapjacks, log jam, lousy are but a few we still hear.' michiganepic.org 'lousy' - huh, clearly not written by someone with the industry's best interests at heart, lol .... but there are a lot of logging terms in the language .... 'skid road' the only one i can think of, but there are many