I Poke Thee!

Poke means different things to different people.

Now, it is something you do on Facebook.
You click the little poke button to say " Hey, I am here!"
If you are lucky, you get to have poking wars with someone special.

Do you remember the miniseries " Lonesome Dove"?
A poke was about having a good time *wink, wink* with a person of the opposite sex.

When you are talking about a poke cake, you are talking about using a wooden spoon handle to push(or poke) holes in the cake and than you pour glaze, jello, or pudding over the cake and some of it runs down into the holes.
I really like the pudding kind. Ummmm...

Now,where was I?

Oh yeah, the different kinds of pokes.

There is the "pig in a poke".
In this case the poke is a bag or sack. Don't buy the poke until you have seen the pig in it. Cause it might not be a pig, but a cat. And by checking, you could let the cat out of the bag. The jig is up!

Poke is a raw fish salad in Hawaii.

A slow poke is someone that is slow.
Or it is the name of a song.
Or it's a pokeman.
Or if you take off the w in slow it's a caramel sucker.

Lastly, we have the poke I know and love. You walk up to someone with a stick or finger and you push on the other person with it. The other person may or may not get annoyed with you. Do this at your own risk.

This concludes your poking lesson for the day.

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Last year's P- Pondering the Demise of the Pom-Pom