Jonesing?

[Perldog007]

My understanding, though limited by lack of experience, is that hereabouts jonesing is the Exquisite Torture one undergoes between ordering a kilt and actually getting to wear it.

as in, I am currently jonesing for my Fk......

Best Regards,

Doug

[sjrapid]

My understanding, though limited by lack of experience, is that hereabouts jonesing is the Exquisite Torture one undergoes between ordering a kilt and actually getting to wear it....

Or the even more exquisite torture of waiting for the fabric to be woven, before it can be shipped to the kiltmaker, so you can order a kilt....

[Luckey]

Jonesing for a beer, a mango(?), a kilt - it all hurts until you get your mits on whatever it is you want/need! :beer:

[Marshal Moroni]

As in, I just ordered 2 16 oz. FC kilts (Macpherson Dress and Pride of Scotland), and I can't stand the idea of waiting 6 weeks for them to arrrive!!!!

This is the torture we are talking about, complicated by my Jones for my Kilt Belt and Sporran Strap from Oconee Leather Works.

Hopefully they'll all arrive soon!!!!!!

Cheers,

[The Wizard of BC]

This question gets asked every year, and we usually answer with this quote from the N.Y. Times.

East Third Street becomes Great Jones Street between Broadway and the Bowery. Who was Jones and what was so great about him?

Jones is Samuel Jones, a lawyer sometimes called Father of the New York Bar. He owned the land on which Great Jones Street now runs and bequeathed the property to the city with the caveat that any street that ran through the land be named for him.

In 1789 a street was opened there, but New York already had a Jones Street in Greenwich Village. So the new street was named Great Jones Street because it was wider than the norm.

In his desire to be remembered, Jones may have linked himself with a different aspect of the city's culture. The slang term "jones," meaning an addiction to drugs, is said to have originated among addicts who lived in Great Jones Alley, off Great Jones Street, between Broadway and Lafayette Street.

[emolas]

This question gets asked every year, and we usually answer with this quote from the N.Y. Times.

East Third Street becomes Great Jones Street between Broadway and the Bowery. Who was Jones and what was so great about him?

Jones is Samuel Jones, a lawyer sometimes called Father of the New York Bar. He owned the land on which Great Jones Street now runs and bequeathed the property to the city with the caveat that any street that ran through the land be named for him.

In 1789 a street was opened there, but New York already had a Jones Street in Greenwich Village. So the new street was named Great Jones Street because it was wider than the norm.

In his desire to be remembered, Jones may have linked himself with a different aspect of the city's culture. The slang term "jones," meaning an addiction to drugs, is said to have originated among addicts who lived in Great Jones Alley, off Great Jones Street, between Broadway and Lafayette Street.

Now THAT is some good trivia!

I never thought of the story behind it. "jonesing" was always just "jonesing" to us everyone knew what it was so nobody had to wonder about it.