Look At Andy Go !

[Keith Burns]

Congrats Andy Hoyt Got the cover on the AAW Website

[Scott Donley]

Congrats Andy Hoyt Got the cover on the AAW Website

Must be really slow at AAW Just joking Andy, Cangats to you and the one that did it "payback"

[Ed Scolforo]

Atta boy, Andy. You did us Yankees proud!!

[Steve Clardy]

Congrats there Andy!

[Dennis Peacock]

Congrats Andy.!!!! So who'd ya hafta "horn-swoggle" to get published on AAW? Congrats buddy, very well deserved.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Congrats Andy! I thought that was an incredible recovery and duet when I originally saw it! Obviously someone agrees with me! Congrats to you and the LOYL!

[John Hart]

Wow!! Cool piece Mr. Hoyt!! Congratulations on your stardom. Hey....also...The Cherry Burl bowl that has a pic name of "Clabo burl". That's pretty rockin' too!!

[Bruce Shiverdecker]

You Da MAN!, Andy.

Bruce

[Bernie Weishapl]

Way to go Andy. Congrats my friend.

[Jim Dunn]

Horn-swoggle is that a word?? If it really is, Andy would know how to do it, I'm sure.

Way to go Andy, and add my kudo's to your wife as well. For a job well done and for putting up with you too

[Andy Hoyt]

Thanks guys. I'll be sure to pass your congrats on to Chrystine. Were it not for her participation it would be just another bowl - or up in smoke.

Jim - apparently it is:

Bamboozle or hoax; cheat or swindle.
“We’re hornswoggled. We’re backed to a standstill. We’re double-crossed to a fare-you-well” bitterly complains a character in Jack London’s The Valley of the Moon of 1913. Seven years later the young P G Wodehouse used it in Little Warrior: “Would she have the generosity to realize that a man ought not to be held accountable for what he says in the moment when he discovers that he has been cheated, deceived, robbed—in a word, hornswoggled?” By then, the word had been in the language with that meaning for more than half a century, and even then it had been around for some decades with an older sense of “embarrass, disconcert or confuse”. People had long since turned it into an exclamation of surprise or amazement: “Well, I’ll be hornswoggled!”

Peter Watts argues in A Dictionary of the Old West that it comes from cowpunching. A steer that has been lassoed around the neck will “hornswoggle”, wag and twist its head around frantically to try to slip free of the rope. A cowboy who lets the animal get away with this is said to have been “hornswoggled”. A nice idea, but nobody seems to have heard of hornswoggle in the cattle sense, and it may be a guess based on horn. Nobody else has much idea either, though it’s often assumed to be one of those highfalutin words like absquatulate and rambunctious that frontier Americans were so fond of creating. It’s sad to have to tag a word as “origin unknown” yet again, but that’s the long and the short of it.

[Raymond Overman]

Well lookie there. Good job Andy and well deserved with that piece. It's a beaut.

[Curt Fuller]

Totally Awsome!

[Ken Mutch]

Hey guys. Stop the ranting and raving. Would someone please post the picture so the rest of us can also get on the wagon
Thanks,

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

Hey guys. Stop the ranting and raving. Would someone please post the picture so the rest of us can also get on the wagon
Thanks,

I'll second that!