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7:43PM
Mar-22-08
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Fred in RI
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I prefer grey because it seems more … grey. To me A seems happier than E.
As far as the cover eating phrase, back in the ’80s I remember the phrase “You can send a kid to college but you can’t make them think.” A clever way of saying the exact same thing. And, yes, that’s when I was in college.
On the topic of Donk, in the poker community (at least locally) a Donk (also short for Donkey) is a stupid (and frequently lucky) card player.
AND as far as optional spellings, maybe one would use ketchup as a condiment and catsup as an ingredient. I don’t know. I like mustard.
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8:49AM
Mar-24-08
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Mary in MS
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When I got out of the Navy in 1983, I went to work for an old radio guy in Chicago IL (he was native to the area). He used to say, “You buy them books, you send them to school, and what do they do? They eat the books.” It was always that exact form. He wasn’t the kind of fellow to be plugged into popular culture, either. Hope you can pin this one down - I’ve always liked this expression!
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12:22AM
May-07-08
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Joie de Vivienne
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Andy said:
Hi Martha and Grant,
I get clasics to read on my Palm from the Project Gutenberg collection http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page. Project Gutenberg is a free repository of thousands of electonic books that are no longer copywritten.
I have been reading War and Peace for the last year-and-a-half. You see, I only read it in lines (or queues as some call them). If I am waiting for the grocery checkout, I pull out my palm and am transported to 19th century Russia.
Andy
I love “copywritten”–it’s evokes a much more visual idea than copyrighted 
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8:20AM
Aug-20-08
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Roro
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Two replies here…
My gran always said “Layers for Meddlers” when I was a child and asked a question……usually because either she didn’t know the answer’ or couldn’t be bothered to stop and tell me!
‘Tow Headed’……used to describe the hair of a ‘mousy’ blond!….’Tow’ is rough sheeps wool…..believe it or not, we used to use it to pack the orifices of bodies on the ward before they were taken to the mortuary. Not a lot of people know that, unless you were a nurse in the 60’s like me.
So, there you have it.
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8:36PM
Aug-21-08
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martha
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>>>>’Tow’ is rough sheeps wool…..believe it or not, we used to use it to pack the orifices of bodies on the ward before they were taken to the mortuary. Not a lot of people know that, unless you were a nurse in the 60’s like me.
So, there you have it.<<<
Wow, Roro. Never heard that use of the word. In what part of the world were you a nurse?
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Roro’s ‘tow’ is a specific use of OED’s fourth denotation of first (of five) noun.
“4. A bundle of untwisted natural or manmade fibres.”
That word is common in many manufacturing industries.
Emmett
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