Subject: Shitepoke
Date: Aug 16 09:20:10 1995
From: Jack Bowling - jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca


Well, My grandfather referred to them as shitepokes, too. Scottish roots
through to Nova Scotia then across the rails to the Fraser Delta when he
was 19. Bet if I phone the relatives back east I would find that they have
called them shitepokes as long as they can remember, too. Doubt very much
if this was an exclusively American etymology.

,Jack