Re: RC: Re: Tack

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 06:55 PM 4/27/00 -0600, Sandy wrote:
> actually it comes from the OLD Latin
> verbage---tackum, tacki, tacko, tackitis, tackanum..tackoribus....they
> never did figure  out what it meant in English...but they kept on
> conjugating it anyway...then one day a fisherman spilt the entire
> contents of his tackle box...and a magic frog inadvertently ate one of
> the spilt flies...and turned into a SADDLE.... and from that time forward
> the frog-turned saddle was affectionately named TACK

It is comforting to know that we have people on Ridecamp who can answer
all our most important questions.  This is an excellent, well
thought out and clear statement about the origins of the term
"tack".  In the future we should all remember this post
and use it as a guideline for our Ridecamp responses.  Thank you
Sandy - Lif

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