RE: Open All Hours - 208

#3106 by Sheldonboy , Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:27 pm

Quote: lynne webb wrote in post #24222
Evening SB, you have been busy, all I've done is clear out the cubby hole under the stairs. Dont know why we hang on to all the junk but I have filled a black bag.

That sounds like a worthwhile job Lyn.
Just out of interest can anyone tell me why we all call it a Cubby hole and What is a Cubby?.

#3107 by lynne webb , Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:37 pm

Sorry SB, I havent got a clue where the name comes from, maybe short for cubicle.

#3108 by Sheldonboy , Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:24 pm

Maybe Lyn sounds good. Unless anyone else has any ideas.

#3109 by lynne webb , Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:46 pm

Bet Mike or Volty will know..

#3110 by Sheldonboy , Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:48 pm

Volty may know Lyn he lives in a Cubby Hole.

#3111 by lynne webb , Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:58 pm

I thought he lived in a wardrobe, not much difference really.

#3112 by astoness , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:04 pm

it is a wardrobe volty lives in...can't be a cubby hole..nowhere to hang his clothes

#3113 by lynne webb , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:11 pm

maybe its a biggish cubby hole.

#3114 by Sheldonboy , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:17 pm

It's where Volty keeps his Cubby's that bothers me

#3115 by lynne webb , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:24 pm

dont think I want to go there.

#3116 by astoness , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:27 pm

Quote: lynne webb wrote in post #24232
dont think I want to go there.

neither will i lynne..too much information

#3117 by mikejee , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:45 pm

All I can suggest is :Possibly from the term "cub" in old english related to "stall, pen, cattle shed, coop, hutch".
Apparently in South Africa, Zimbabwe & Barbados it is the glove compartment in a car. I suppose in the first two cases it could also be a place to keep your lion cubs

#3118 by Sheldonboy , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:49 pm

Good evening Mike and thank you.
As usual a Stalwart at explaining the Inexplicable.

#3119 by lynne webb , Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:58 pm

Thanks Mike.

#3120 by astoness , Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:59 am

Quote: mikejee wrote in post #24234
All I can suggest is :Possibly from the term "cub" in old english related to "stall, pen, cattle shed, coop, hutch".
Apparently in South Africa, Zimbabwe & Barbados it is the glove compartment in a car. I suppose in the first two cases it could also be a place to keep your lion cubs

thank you mike so now we know where volty hangs out

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