Posted by susan C on October 10, 2001, at 18:12:03
In reply to Re: Commandments for this century ... » Willow, posted by Krazy Kat on October 10, 2001, at 10:56:54
Last century or the ones before: don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is
oh, btw, to digress, I came across 'earwig' reference whist a looking fer something to add to this thread. Listen Up:
earwig. The nocturnal earwig (Forficula auricularia) is a common garden pest, but it won't wiggle or wriggle into peoples's ears and then drill its way into the brain with the aid of its large pincers. Yet it was exactly this popular superstition that gave the earwig, or ear-wiggle, its name over a thousand years ago. One English writer even instructed "if an earwig begotten into your eare...spit into the same, and it will come forth anon...." Good trick if you can do it. To earwig someone is to fill his mind with prejudices by insinuations, by whispering into his ear and wriggling into his confidence..taken from QPB Encyclopeadia of word and phrase origins by Robert Hendrickson, c1997
mouse hiding in the bookshelves from Kats and Owls 8;o)
susan c> > ooo, Willow, can we rewrite the commandments without getting into trouble? ;)
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> Glad to see you around. Sorry you were ill.
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> Am not a wise owl, am a lazy manatee who doesn't rise from bed until 11:00 these days unless necessary...
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