Did I mention in an earlier post that Magic Johnson was the keynote speaker at the REALTOR® Conference on Saturday night. He was. Did I mention that we had pretty good seats for the that part of the conference? We did. It was a very entertaining and enlightening hour or so. He is a really smart man, a good business man, and he brought it home that you need to make sure you understand what the people you are trying to sell something to want to buy. Take a chance. Put a business where you would not expect that business to be, make sure the business is selling what the local people want to buy, and more likely than not, that business will be a success. You need to KNOW what the people you are selling to want to buy. Now you know. It is still chilly here, not going to be as cold as last night, but definitely not hot. Maybe a little rain. Maybe not. Warming up a little bit, back to more seasonable temperatures a week from now.Roustabout -- Noun. 1. a worker in an oil field, on a dock, or on a ship. 2. a worker at a circus or carnival. 3. a person with no permanent home. "There is Tulsa itself, a brash young town full of oil money and oil field roustabouts." Adam Nossiter, The New York Times Book Review, November 11, 2001
Did You Know? Circus roustabouts (who erect and dismantle tents, care for the grounds, and handle animals and equipment) are commonly associated with circus animals, of course, but they also have a connection with game birds, at least in terms of etymology. Roustabout comes from roust, which is an alteration of rouse, a verb from Middle English that originally meant "to shake the feathers" (as in the way a bird might ruffle its feathers or shake its plumage when it is settling down or grooming itself). Rouse, which today is a synonym of awaken, also formerly meant "to cause to break from cover," a sense that may have influenced the modern meaning of roust: "to drive (as from bed) roughly or unceremoniously."
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