06-17-2004, 09:21 PM
Hi
Sometimes the English language has sayings that just don't make sense, if you don't share the same background. It was, for example, George Bernard Shaw who observed that: "Great Britain and the United States are nations
separated by a common language." But smaller areas than that can have their very own idiom.
One of the sayings I grew up with is the one in the title of the thread. It is generally used to mean that a person has experienced unusually good luck.
Today, Warblade (who lives in New Zealand) was telling me of the drops one of his characters has found as he ventured through Hell in D2. I responded with:
"Is it easy to sit in your computer chair with all those horseshoes stuck in your butt? ;)"
The poor man was bewildered. The comment made no sense to him. After I explained, he asked if this was a Canadian saying. And I don't know. :( Maybe Canadian, maybe North American, maybe just Ontario, maybe just a small section of Ontario?
My Google-Fu is weak, I admit, but I could find no history or geography for this saying. So, my questions are:
Is this a saying you have heard?
If so, where did you hear it?
Sometimes the English language has sayings that just don't make sense, if you don't share the same background. It was, for example, George Bernard Shaw who observed that: "Great Britain and the United States are nations
separated by a common language." But smaller areas than that can have their very own idiom.
One of the sayings I grew up with is the one in the title of the thread. It is generally used to mean that a person has experienced unusually good luck.
Today, Warblade (who lives in New Zealand) was telling me of the drops one of his characters has found as he ventured through Hell in D2. I responded with:
"Is it easy to sit in your computer chair with all those horseshoes stuck in your butt? ;)"
The poor man was bewildered. The comment made no sense to him. After I explained, he asked if this was a Canadian saying. And I don't know. :( Maybe Canadian, maybe North American, maybe just Ontario, maybe just a small section of Ontario?
My Google-Fu is weak, I admit, but I could find no history or geography for this saying. So, my questions are:
Is this a saying you have heard?
If so, where did you hear it?
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake