Hello Mac

On 05-Feb-00, you wrote:

>>>> Na. Not a guess nor a dream.  Trust me (ahem!!!) on this one.....
>>> 
>>> Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. :)
>> 
>> huh?
> 
> Literally - I fear the Greeks although they give us gifts. (Trojan horse)
> 

Foreign (to me) languages never cease to amaze me:  some languages manage to say a 
whole sentence in a few words (as above) whereas others say only a few words when 
converted but have to say a whole sentence worth in their own language to say those 
few words!!


> Modern equivalent - don't believe everything you hear and always look a gift horse 
>in the mouth!

Pesimist.    (Man after me own heart!)
 
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