Hi Boris ... It's fascinating that you're familiar with the term "fish wrap." When I was a youngster, fish were often sold wrapped in newspaper. That's not been the case for decades, at least around here. Everything's been so sanitized. The term goes back to long before you were even a glimmer in your parents' eyes, and that use of the newspaper pretty much became history before you were even born.
Herb Caen, a well-loved and very well-known columnist for the old San Francisco Chronicle used to refer to the paper as "the local fish wrap." I always got a chuckle whenever he wrote that, and promised myself that one day I'd use the term. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Boris Liberman > http://home.earthlink.net/~morepix/bursthydrant.html > > Shel, this is *cool* (like in flowing water in the middle of the hot > day) shot ;-). > > Fascinating word you used - fish wrap. We have he same in Russian, word > by word. Good to know! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
