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Monday, July 26, 2004
Our house is sold (subject to contract). Brilliant!
Lance Armstrong won his record-breaking 6th Tour de France (shame he's American). Brilliant!
This is my last week at work. Brilliant!
Original versions of popular sayings
I've spent a lot of time researching popluar sayings and have discovered that many have changed over the years. Here are the originals...
Every cloud has a silver lime in (popularised by South American lime pickers)
Absinthe makes the heart grow stronger (an old French advertising campaign)
Great mines stink alike (refers to the smell of productive mines in South Wales)
Everything but the kitchen sinks (attributed to Thomas Andrews, the designer of the Titanic)
You can't budge a book by its cover (refers to old dust covers that were so flimsy, you couldn't pick books up by them)
Where's your heart? On your sleeve! (popular joke among heart surgeons)
Everyone's in the same goat (apparently, goats used to be much bigger in the past and could accommodate up to 17 grown men)
The straw that strokes the camel's back (a bedouin's most useful tool)
The early bird catches worms (refers to the medical fact that girls who stay out late tend to get worms)
Better latte than never (modern New York phrase often heard in Starbucks)
Turd over a new leaf (the dog walker's lament)
Don't look a gimp whore in the mouth (good advice)
It costs a finger and thumb (due to inflation, things now cost an arm and a leg)
Don't count your chickens at Brands Hatch (general advice given by the government to new farmers)
I can bite off more than you can, Chew (a boast by Han Solo in 'Star Wars')
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