On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:23, Jon Carnes wrote: > "Egging on" is to keep someone moving. In days of yore it was used to keep > undesirable folks moving on. You might help them decide to relocate by > hurling garbage or eggs at them.
This isn't what the OED seems to indicate. But that's just being -pedantic. The M-W seems to agree with OED. For whatever reason, the "egg" in "egg on" seems to have the same roots as the word "edge". Perhaps related to "sharp edge", as in using a blade to persuade someone. In an attempt to contribute something Linuxy, let me point you to a new game demo: http://www.pyrogon.com/games/candycruncher/cc_linux.php This is kind of fun, although I really suck at it. Regards, matt -- Matt Matthews \ ph: 919.660.2811 \ Use GNU/Linux _o) w00t Duke Univ., Postdoc\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \____________ /\\ Dept. of Mathematics\ http://www.math.duke.edu/~jvmatthe/ \ _\_V _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
