At 07:45 PM 9/18/05 -0700, Bev Walker wrote: >I heard another one - this from my MIL who told me she was so tired she >could sleep on a clothesline :p
I vaguely recall an SF story in which people *did* sleep on clotheslines. It was a post-disaster story in which the characters had been on the space station for so many generations that they had forgotten gravity. When sleeping, they clipped an ankle to a line stretched across the room so they wouldn't drift away. About half the sayings on the list struck me as Hoosier dialect. Alas, I can't think of any more -- odds are that I simply don't think of them as *odd*. But there's a bit of advice, reputedly given to my mother by her grandmother: "Get married in a brown dress, and have a peg to hang it on." But nowadays, you can get white silk so *cheap* at Dharma . . . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the creek is flowing, and it looks as though we'll get another fall of rain. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
