Codswallop

Yesterday down at the cafe Bingo Whitlow and Silas Ministral got into a little discussion. Bingo is the one who used the term hogwash and Silas is the one that got the bright idea (to build an actual hog wash) from it. Bingo was talking about something he heard on TV and said, "That's a bunch of codswallop." Seems Bingo has this little book that lists words and how they got into our lingo. It was obvious to us all that Silas was a bit confused by the term. Bingo looked him in the eye and said, "Now let's see you make something out of that, Silas." Silas stood and walked around the table three times. "I'm thinking. I'm thinking," he said.

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