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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[A " poke " is a bag.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stanley R Stewart]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2009 5:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[pig in a poke right on]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[linda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2009 7:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[Stanley----You are absolutely correct.  I was born in West Virginia, and when I grew up, we always said "poke" meaning bag.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pj4228]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 4:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[Stewart is right. My Grandother would say 'Go fetch me a paper poke! or a cloth poke. It  is the act of putting something into. or the motion of :. You  poke it in a bag, paper sack, bucket;etc. Being 81 years young, I still use the word poke around my kids, Grand kids and Great Grand kids. They laugh and I have to explain what poke means. I think it was derived from the word poker, as used to poke the burning wood in a fire place or outdoor wash pot, when boiling work clothes to get them clean or oiling down hog fat to render the LARD out. As a small boy 8 to 10 years old, that was my job to keep the fires poked under the wash pot and/or add fire wood.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rockinchair4099]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2009 4:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[again, who cares?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[C .P.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2009 6:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[You cared or you wouldn't have opened it to read....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 26th 2010 9:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[Stanley you beat me to it, but to expand, a "poke" is an old world word for bag, and the term to buy a "pig in a poke" that is to buy something without looking first and risk being tricked into buying something worthless comes from the old world trick of doing just that.  Dishonest merchants back when would put, back then, realitivly worthless cats in bags,  i.e. "pokes" and try to sell them off as pigs.  Then try to skip off before getting caught, of course, if the trick didn't work "the cat was let out of the bag".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CANDIMIKE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2009 7:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[isn't a poke a little black hockey ball they bat around with hockey sticks]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jon Joseph]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 16th 2009 8:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[That is a puck, believe I know, state of ice I am, MN.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RESCUEEIGHT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 4:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[LOL that was funny and cute, I bet you knew it is a puck on the ice.......]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[callgirl235]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 7th 2011 11:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[No, that is a puck... Can you remember that..?? a PUCK.  Or don't you give a flying puck???]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geegee Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 1st 2010 2:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[ A "poke" was what Gus & the other Lonesome Dove cowboys referred to as Screwing Laurie, the town whore.  As in, "How about a poke, Laurie darlin' "  RichFromTampa]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RichFromTampa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 12:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[A "poke" is a small grocery bag...at least in W.Va.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[skrdenver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 12:56AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[A "poke" is either a burlap sack, a jab in the ribs or a wild plant that is kind of like spinach.....all this is according to Southern talk.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ewinjones1031]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 3:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[oh bummer. i thought this article had to do with pokies. when a woman gets cold and just has to say HELLO!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bb0507]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 26th 2009 2:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[To understand the true definition of the word "Poke", one only has to be familiar with the famous movie series "Lonesome Dove".<br>Another old definition of "Poke" was the money you had hid away for a rainy day.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hunkules1]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 12:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[At the college I went to, it was everyone's understanding that if you poked somebody, that meant that you wanted to have sex with them.  I'm not even joking.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Lopez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 2:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[a Poke is a Mon<br>pokemon XD lol rofl lmao<br>don't flame me i just try to be funny]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[joeywheeler5429]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2009 11:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[well poke me......]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mooreisen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 4:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on We Poll the Populace: 'What is a Poke?']]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/12/16/we-poll-the-populace-what-is-a-poke/</guid><description><![CDATA[a poke is a poke, if you know what i mean]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sumersetsam]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 17th 2009 4:16PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
