On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:16:24 +0000, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dr Johnson's dancing dog been transmogrified into a dancing bear. Why? A > bear is, I suppose, a more plausible biped than a dog; but something more > sinister may be afoot here. > And I had always thought it was "walking" rather than "dancing". http://www.bartleby.com/100/249.60.html somewhat affirms this with ATTRIBUTION: Life of Johnson (Boswell). 1 Vol. ii. Chap. ix. 1763.
Lakota mythology describes a conflict among the animals in which the bear sided with the bipeds, but without having two left feet. I wonder if the transmogrifaction is a side effect of the elision of the Politically Incorrect clause of the simile. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
