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Don't criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, when you begin to criticize him, you'll be a mile away AND you'll have his shoes.
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I knit--(as many know) and i knit socks all the time...
one of brand of sock yarn i use, is Cervinia, (an italian sock yarn)--which is marked: speciale per calzetteria--which i generally presumed meant "special(or especially) for socks"
--but it took me this many hours (since early this AM) to realize the italian word for socks is based on the word for shoe (if calzone is related to shoe, calzetteria (for sock) most certainly is also!)
etteria as an ending exist in english at least in one word(cafeteria --only a single t but clearly related.)
i'll slip over to onelook to see exactly what 'eteria' --i can guess at the meaning, but...
what fun!
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Calzone means shoe?! Egad, I don't think I'll tell my husband that; he likes to eat them.
EDIT: Wups--just got around to reading yesterday's Word; now this thread makes sense! [smacking palm to forehead e]
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and watch out for heels of bread.. wouldn't want to eat them either would you?
(in our house, the heel, especially the heel of a bakery rye bread, was a treat) bakery food was a treat, and the best bakery was 2 blocks away--uphill, so who every had the task of running to the bakery was always rewarded with the heel--it could be eaten on the leasurely downhill walk home.
--if you waited till you got home, someone else might eat it when you weren't looking!
we called the heels 'bread cookies' (my son still enjoys twice baked bread in its various forms (biscotti, zwibach, rusks, etc) i like only rye bread heels and biscotti.
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Don't know "socks", but en Español, zapatería is shoe store.
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heels of bread.. wouldn't want to eat them either would you? No--but hubby likes them, too! Give me the nice soft white part any day, preferably warm and full of melted butter. Yum--better than any sweet dessert!
Wups again--here, smack my hand for seeming like I'm trying to turn this into a food thread! [presenting hand e]
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Well then, off of food and back to the original subject: Quote:
Don't criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, when you begin to criticize him, you'll be a mile away AND you'll have his shoes.
For an exceedingly mean take on a related old parable:
I was sad because I had no shoes.
Then I saw a man with no feet.
I figured he did not need any shoes so I took his. 
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do you have weird conversation with your family about words (food words included?)
my son came across the word rusk in a book, and called me to ask what it was (this was some 10 years or so ago) --i immediately replied "english (british english) for a zwibach."
(likewise he knew mandlebrot as mathmatisian, and was confused when i was talking about them.. until i explained that mandlebrot was a german name for biscotti.
in our house chewy and hard bread were prefered over soft bread.
mostly bread was homemade, but we also liked bagels, and bagel chips (thin sliced bagels, toated) and melba toast.
dense, low gluten breads (ryes, pumpernickel, 7 grain (corn bread--where corn means local grain, maize) and corn meal (maize) bread (aka anadama)were all favorites--still are.
(we did do a thread on the various names for breads and baked goods once didn't we? not too much food, more just names of food)
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That was enlightening; always had thought that mandlebrot was something eaten by mathmatisians.
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are you familiar with fractals? one famous fractal is called the mandlebrot series--for the mathmatician.
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