On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:55:13 -0800 (PST), spamtrap1888
> wrote:

>On Feb 4, 10:16*am, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:09:43 -0600, Lou Decruss
>>
>>
>>
>> > wrote:
>> >On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:33:55 -0800 (PST), spamtrap1888
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >>On Feb 3, 6:27 am, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>> >>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:24:52 -0500, "Nancy Young"
>>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >Lou Decruss wrote:
>>
>> >>> >> I got a new job just as I started that project so it's on the back
>> >>> >> burner along with 100 other fun projects.
>>
>> >>> >A different new job?
>>
>> >>> No. The same one I started last summer just after I put the peppers
>> >>> in brine.
>>
>> >>> >> I don't even have time to
>> >>> >> read usenet much anymore and I'm posting now while I'm thawing out
>> >>> >> from cleaning up 20 inches of snow. I'm about a third of the way
>> >>> >> done. Pita bread pizzas tonight if I still have any energy.
>>
>> >>> >Sorry about all that snow. It's gotten tiresome, though we got
>> >>> >a break this time.
>>
>> >>> Yeah. I know you folks out east have had a tough year.
>>
>> >>> The snow in this picture is like 10% of what I had to move yesterday.
>> >>> I've got the cars to the end of the driveway but the street is still
>> >>> blocked. I was too tired to cook last night so it was leftovers.
>>
>> >>>http://i53.tinypic.com/dvsmwx.jpg
>>
>> >>Years ago I tried to get a job where I only had to show up ten months
>> >>a year, but it was no-go.
>>
>> >That would be construction but there ain't much of that going on now.
>> >When I worked construction I had very little time off in the winter
>> >but I didn't want it. *If I could go back in time I'd take more hours
>> >and side jobs and save rather than live high-on-the hog. *I'd be able
>> >to enjoy middle age rather than doing what i'm doing now.
>>
>> >Lou * * * *
>>
>> Isn't living "HIGH-on-the-hog" a euphemism for snorting cocaine?
>
>It's a euphemism for eating pork chops and ham instead of pigs feet
>and sowbelly.
>
>From phrases.org.uk
>
>This is the earliest printed form of the phrase that I have come
>across - from the New York Times, March 1920:
>
> Southern laborers who are "eating too high up on the hog" (pork
>chops and ham) and American housewives who "eat too far back on the
>beef" (porterhouse and round steak) are to blame for the continued
>high cost of living, the American Institute of Meat Packers announced
>today.
>
>'High off the hog' has a similar pedigree, i.e. mid 20th century USA.
>For example, the San Francisco paper the Call-Bulletin, May 1946:
>
> I have to do my shopping in the black market because we can't eat
>as high off the hog as Roosevelt and Ickes and Joe Davis and all those
>millionaire friends of the common man.

shemp is such a moron. He kinda reminds me of kenji only mean.

Lou