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Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 23:49:21 -0500, Goomba38 >
> rummaged among random neurons and opined:
>
> <snip>
>
> >So do you have any superstitions to share?

>
> I recall two: "Fruit before bed settles like lead" and "Never eat new
> potatoes in a month with an "R." Don't ask me the genesis of either.
>
> My mother had superstitions and sayings for every occasion. Fer
> instance, depending on what point she was trying to make, "Look before
> you leap" or "He who hesitates is lost." <sigh> I was a confused child
> who grew up into a confused adult.
>
> Terry Pulliam Burd
>
> --
> "Most vigitaryans I iver see looked enough like their food to be
> classed as cannybals."
>
> Finley Peter Dunne (1900)
>
> To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"


I've always liked "Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder." "-)
The corollary of which is, "Out of sight, out of mind."
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