Re: Reader's Digest Joke Of T
  By: Mike Powell to NORTHERN REALMS on Fri Oct 07 2022 17:57:00

 >> ***** Out of sight *****
 >> At a Long Island house party, a chap invited an attractive girl to go fishing with him on the Sound. After an hour
 >> without any luck, he asked, "Do you think
 >> we ought to try chumming?"
 >> His companion, a novice at fishing, looked toward the house on the distant shore, then replied, "We might as well. They
 >> can't see us from there."
 >> --John C. Miller
 >> RD Issue: July 1957

 MP> Now I am wondering what she thought it meant! :D

i doubt it was the dictionary version of it for sure:

chum1
/CH?m/
Learn to pronounce
INFORMAL
verb
gerund or present participle: chumming
be friendly to or form a friendship with someone.
"they started chumming around in high school"

regards

Charles Blackburn
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