I think "schlepping" is Yiddish - a linguistic cross between Hebrew & German.
At a guess, i'd say the name is a 'corruption' of 'Judisch' or something similar (I know a few words of German, just..).
Anyway, i think it's a wonderfully expressive word - i like it, so i use it; means (AFAIK) what we might call 'traipsing around', poking into this & that (i Hope that's what it means!)..
So, i've been poking into other blogs using Google blogs, just picking up on anything i think looks interesting: class-mates' blogs, links from there, you can go to some surprising & interesting places..
..& of course i suffer from 'Insatiable Curtiosity' as Rudyard Kipling (poems here) said in one of his "Just So" stories (or here) entitled "The Elephant's Child". We read these when we were kids, & i still like them a lot, but i can't find all of them in the Dunedin Public Library; i suspect some have fallen victim to PC, like "The Butterfly That Stamped" or "How the Alphabet Was Made". Nonetheless, there are still delightful stories available like "The Cat Who Walked By Himself", "The Beginning of the Armadillos", & "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"..
..& they're all online, even if the DPL hasn't the original dead-tree version.
AND - i Have To Rave On about the soccer World Cup: the All Whites holding World Champions Italy to a 1-all draw; Absolutely Fabulous!!
Are we going to get to Round 2? Who knows..
Poor old Carisbrook. Rolled, bowled & ****-holed out of existence. If i say any more i'll prob'ly get sued (Great-Big-Long-Siiiiiiiiighh!)..
I suspect Lack of Imagination, Vested Interest, & possibly even a certain amount of good old-fashioned Snobbery. The new stadium itself may be ok (tho Global Warming - & Yes! There IS such a thing, despite the ostrich stance of people worrying about How Much It's All Going To Cost - arrrgghh! - may yet have the last laugh); may be, may be, but the long-term cost? I dunno, & i don't think anyone else does either..
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