Oh Great 'Binder In The Sky

[alice@domain.elided]

Joe,
Well, now that you mention it, I asked about "cornbinder" since my 
experience is that the corn is grabbed, cut, decobbed, shredded and 
shot ...nothing about "binding".  Actually, we referred to the 
machine as a "cornpicker" or a "combiner" ...but what do I know?

I love the "corn..." phrases.  I do not consider them derogatory, as 
perhaps conventional usage implies.  I have gobs of kid memories 
smelling freshly cut fields, messing about in the stubble, getting 
filthy from the dust, itchy from the baled straw, riding the wagon.

Of course, now they get cancer from the sun ...kids won't work on 
the farm ...won't work at all ...damn curmudgeon again, promised I 
wouldn't hoe that road.   
Mark