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To: im sloane <im_sloane@hotmail.com>, "6pack@autox.team.net" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [6pack] Old Sayings...
From: Michael Porter via 6pack <6pack@autox.team.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:56:55 -0600
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On 4/28/2020 8:45 PM, im sloane wrote:
> Doesn't look like an egg to me. And anyway I mean very close to his 
> bare foot.
>
> I don't think we've gotten the thing sticking into his head right, and 
> I don't think anybody mentioned the thing coming out of  his ear.
>
> I think the bare foot is something different than just the 'shoe is on 
> the other one', but I may be wrong.
>
> This is fun! We're all so bored!! (haha)


Just to the right of his foot is a needle and thread with many loops, 
which I suggest symbolizes "a stitch in time saves nine." Below his foot 
is a broken egg (trust me, it's an egg--I looked up the original larger 
view of it).    Yes, someone got the thing sticking out of his 
head--meaning, "he's got a screw loose."  I determined that the thing 
coming out of his ear is a worm and thought, with the bird on his head, 
that meant, "the early bird gets the worm," but it could also mean 
"earworm," someone bugged by a musical phrase.


As far as the bare foot, there's only one thing that comes to mind, and 
that's the old nursery rhyme, "My son, John, goes to bed with trousers 
on, one shoe off and one shoe on, my son, John. But, that makes no sense 
in the context of old proverbs and sayings.  Wearing only one shoe is 
deemed in superstitious lore to be unlucky, but, I can't find a saying 
that echoes that.



Cheers.

-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/28/2020 8:45 PM, im sloane wrote:<br>
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        Doesn't look like an egg to me. And anyway I mean very close to
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        I don't think we've gotten the thing sticking into his head
        right, and I don't think anybody mentioned the thing coming out
        of  his ear. </div>
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        I think the bare foot is something different than just the 'shoe
        is on the other one', but I may be wrong. </div>
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        This is fun! We're all so bored!! (haha)</div>
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    <p>Just to the right of his foot is a needle and thread with many
      loops, which I suggest symbolizes "a stitch in time saves nine." 
      Below his foot is a broken egg (trust me, it's an egg--I looked up
      the original larger view of it).    Yes, someone got the thing
      sticking out of his head--meaning, "he's got a screw loose."  I
      determined that the thing coming out of his ear is a worm and
      thought, with the bird on his head, that meant, "the early bird
      gets the worm," but it could also mean "earworm," someone bugged
      by a musical phrase.</p>
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    <p>As far as the bare foot, there's only one thing that comes to
      mind, and that's the old nursery rhyme, "My son, John, goes to bed
      with trousers on, one shoe off and one shoe on, my son, John. 
      But, that makes no sense in the context of old proverbs and
      sayings.  Wearing only one shoe is deemed in superstitious lore to
      be unlucky, but, I can't find a saying that echoes that.</p>
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    </p>
    <p>Cheers.<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking 
distance....</pre>
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