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RevJP
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 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject: Fair to Midland... |
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"How are you doing?"
"Ah, fair to midland..."
What's the scoop guys? Anyone have an idea?
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FFT
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45degreeN
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: FFT didn't close the logical loop |
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| Middlin' being somewhere in the middle |
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kevin
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Wrong spelling Rev.
Fair to middling. Middling denoting average and usually in refference to how someone felt or their health.
It was also a term used by cotton buyers in the South and probably else where. They would take a sample of the cotton from a bale and pull the fibers apart grading it as "short middling" "long middling" according to the length of the cotton fiber, thus determing the price to pay. |
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FFT
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: |
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You posted in a thread that was over with a year ago, to correct the original poster (which was already accomplished) and without adding much information that wasn't in the link posted.
Why?
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Steven3
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| Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Kevin | kevin wrote: | | It was also a term used by cotton buyers in the South and probably else where. They would take a sample of the cotton from a bale and pull the fibers apart grading it as "short middling" "long middling" according to the length of the cotton fiber, thus determing the price to pay. |
Thanks for that.
I had never heard this one before, but on checking around it seems to more or less be the case
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fai4.htm
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/fair_to_middling/
Learn something every day 
Good luck with learning how to navigate the forum.
God bless
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Mattathias
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| Maybe he had Dwight Yoakam's song Fair To Midland running through his mind. (Even if he didn't, I did. ) |
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