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"Roomy moo" description
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2015/03/14 - 1:16pm
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My 89-year father has been using the expression "roomy moo" to describe bad weather.  He says that it comes from a 16mm film that he saw after the war (World War II).  The movie had something to do with a foreigner on an island who used the term to describe anything that went wrong, including bad weather.

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2015/03/14 - 5:20pm
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Could thar be French? I'm terrinle at French, but  Foogle translates rue mi mou as as soft midstreet.  A pothole ort a puddle?  Sortly someone here is able to speaj french?

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2015/03/19 - 9:17am
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I don't know about the moo, but rheumy was a common way of describing the type of wet foggy weather that would give you the sniffles.

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2015/03/20 - 7:07am
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I know French, but I don't think that's the right tree for this hunt. Like polistra, I'm inclined to think that rheumy would be right if it were restricted to discussing bad weather, and I also have no idea what the moo might be. Still, it is hard to see how rheumy would apply to other generic unpleasantness. This one is a puzzle.

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2015/03/25 - 10:09pm
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Rue my mood ?

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2015/03/26 - 5:44am
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Nice! Maybe "ruin my mood" in a dialectical "rune me mood".

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