On Aug 30, 2009, at 22:12, Su Carter wrote:
A No. 3 Broad-headed Extra Long would grace any true pinhead's
collection."
-- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Su, recovering from her unexpected overdose of endorphins
To help you recover in a hurry... You owe me for a keyboard (and Mac
ones don't come cheap) -- wine all over the place. I only gurgled
through most of the quotation (including the image of a "microscopic
cockerel" on a pin's head) but the "true pinhead's collection" was just
too much... Especially in conjunction with a similarly double-edged and
textile-related term, used (though not by Pratchett, so far as I know)
in reference to annoyingly stupid people: "a pinprick".
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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