Tim Moore wrote : > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > >> Er ... couple of words spring to mind there - grandmother and eggs > :-). But > >> I know that you are trying to help.
I thought if was related to the chicken and egg problem, but I didn't see why grandmother should be involved ;-) > I think you misunderstand the sense of the idiom "teaching your > grandmother to suck eggs." It implies nothing about the maturity > of the "teacher." Vivian meant that you were treating him like > a child -- that's the teaching an elderly person to suck eggs > part -- but I think between his smiley and his "I know that you > are trying to help" comment it is clear that he is joking. Thank you for the explanation. -Fred -- Frédéric Bouvier http://my.fotolia.com/frfoto/ Photo gallery - album photo http://fgsd.sourceforge.net/ FlightGear Scenery Designer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
