Why are Cobwebs.....

**Zak33** · 22-09-2003, 11:28 AM

..called Cob Webs?

**Bunjiweb** · 22-09-2003, 11:45 AM

i dont know but i hate them and the arachnids that make them.....with a passion.

Ben :|

**Areku** · 22-09-2003, 11:48 AM

I dont call them cob webs, i call them spider webs, which is pretty self explanitory really

**Bunjiweb** · 22-09-2003, 11:49 AM

yes but then you are wrong... they are called COB WEBS... not spider webs... lol...

Ben

**TiG** · 22-09-2003, 11:51 AM

Middle English coppeweb : coppe, spider (short for attercoppe, from Old English ttercoppe : tor, poison + copp, head) + web, web; see web.

TiG

**Zak33** · 22-09-2003, 01:57 PM

Attercoppe Attercoppe.....I remember that from SCHOOL.

Well dont TiGster.....nice one mate

**slugs** · 22-09-2003, 07:57 PM

very interesting

**Areku** · 22-09-2003, 08:01 PM

well there ya go, i learned something today .... now have to find a way in which i shall use this amazing information

**Shorty** · 22-09-2003, 08:08 PM

Another quiz Zak.. damn.. just missed the thread..

**Theo** · 22-09-2003, 09:20 PM

Okay... why do oldies say "I'm sweating cobs" then? :>

**Tumble** · 22-09-2003, 11:28 PM

only oldies say that?

/races away on zimmer....

**c0w** · 23-09-2003, 02:32 PM

lol good question, and i don't have a clue why..
anyone know..

**Tumble** · 23-09-2003, 03:54 PM

isn't it cos cobs of corn sweat slightly when they're still on the plants? need someone agricultural to answer tbh

(and no jokes about my car ok?

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