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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Re: Idiomatic expressions #96070 02/19/03 05:25 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York good point, dxb! (putting on thinking cap...) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Idiomatic expressions #96071 02/19/03 05:52 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear dxb : much less hazardous, Mrs. Beaton's cookbook advice: "First catch your hare...." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Idiomatic expressions #96072 02/19/03 06:10 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Dear wwh: We don't want no splitting hares on this board! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Idiomatic expressions #96073 02/19/03 06:13 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass >We don't want no splitting hares on this board! but some days it seems that's all we got.. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Idiomatic expressions #96074 02/19/03 07:31 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 At least no nare krishnas. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter blue suede devils #96075 02/19/03 08:41 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory Speaking of devils, where does the Blue Devil come from, of Duke University fame (or infamy, I should say, since I am a Kentucky fan)? Here in Lexington the mascot of Henry Clay High School is also the Blue Devils. I just wonder where the concept came from. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: blue suede devils #96076 02/19/03 09:14 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Alex: my guess is that when Duke U was organizing its football team, they either knew or found out what colors their pontential opponents had alread adopted, and chose blue, which presumably had not yet been chosen by another nearby college.. Of course the smoke from their principal benefactor's tobacco was blue. Well, sort of. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: blue suede devils #96077 02/20/03 01:10 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky After a WWI group of French soldiers, Alex-- http://www.duke.edu/web/Archives/history/why_blue_devil.html Thanks for the incentive to LIU--I've wondered idly about that, too. Had forgotten Henry Clay, though. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: blue suede devils #96078 02/20/03 01:53 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Nice find Jackie : even using your post for clues, I couldn't find that site again. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: blue suede devils #96079 02/20/03 01:56 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Nice find Jackie [GLOW] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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