"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
...

piece I originally posted and which raised the ire of uk.sci.weather's
resident BBC shill and media sentry: t'wit "DaveR"

aside Mr W is at this very moment constructing the biggest monologue in
history

Heres something to be going on with..........
Poppycock came into use a little later than bunkum, in the mid 19th century.
It is a borrowing of a Dutch dialect word pappekak, which is formed by
combining pap,
meaning 'soft' (from which we get the English word pap), and kak, meaning
'dung'.
Dave R.