From: ninja_pencil	Date: April 20th, 2008 11:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Congratulations on the new widdu yiddu boogah dude!

I think a pony-trap is basically a small carriage pulled behind the hoss - like an Orson Cart but slightly less swanky.

	From: byronstarr	Date: April 22nd, 2008 02:13 am (UTC)		(Link)

Ohhhhh! I kinda an idea it was something like that. Well, okay, after I finished the book I did . . . when I first saw it, I didn't have the foggiest.

	From: ajjones	Date: April 21st, 2008 12:06 am (UTC)		(Link)

Unrelated, but your book has been making me belly laugh. Those poor still born gnomes.

	From: byronstarr	Date: April 22nd, 2008 02:11 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thanks! The book is chock full o' interesting facts. You think the yard gnomes are cool, wait until you get to the part where I blow the lid off the connection between Leprechuans, Liver Failure, and Enron.

	From: fixnwrtr	Date: April 22nd, 2008 09:46 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Pony and trap

Meaning

Rubbish; nonsense, or 'of poor quality'. Often shortened just to 'pony'.

Origin

This is Cockney rhyming slang - pony and trap -> crap.

	From: byronstarr	Date: April 25th, 2008 08:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I think in this sense it was the pony carriage thing. Although that would have to be one hell of a fall to have caused the damage it did in the book.

	From: fixnwrtr	Date: April 25th, 2008 08:20 pm (UTC)		(Link)

So sort of a dog cart, which never made sense to me because a dog doesn't pull it, a horse or pony does. I'll have to read the book.

	From: byronstarr	Date: April 25th, 2008 10:37 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Yeah, that's it. I honestly had no idea at first.

	From: ehmgee	Date: April 26th, 2008 04:24 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Huh?

What part were they talking about a pony cart? How did I miss that? OHHHHH is it when they go to the old place?

Did you like it?
xo

	From: byronstarr	Date: April 26th, 2008 06:36 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Huh?

The elizabeth flashbacks. That's how she hurt her head - she fell out of a pony-trap.

I've been meaning to email you about this book. I'm not sure if I liked it so much because it was so emotionally driven and I was in a bit of an emotional frame of mind (I actually finished it while Shelly was in labor), but it's one of the best SKs I've read and since he's my favorite author I'd have to say it's one of my all-time favorites. Without a doubt, the best book I've read in years.

Edited at 2008-04-26 06:37 pm (UTC)

From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 24th, 2008 02:09 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Pony traps and babies

A pony trap is a carriage pulled by a pony.

Betsey did your baby's chart. Says he's going to spend most of his energy throughout life trying to get laid. Sounds like he's living up to John Byron Starrs #s I, II, and III to me.

Congratulations,

Lou Starr

	From: byronstarr	Date: April 25th, 2008 08:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Pony traps and babies

LOL! That's funny. I guess it is hereditary.