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Is anyone else singing...
"He jumped without a parachute from 40,000 feet"?
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You crafty dog, you, Dr. Bill.
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Crafty hell. I had what would have been a good post screwed up by neonatal nuttiness of new system. It kept telling me "we cannot proceed because not all fields are filled in" when there were no unfilled in fields.
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> "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored."
I remember as a very young kid asking my father the origin of this phrase. His answer was along these lines:
During the Civil War the North perceived the South as traitors to the Union. They believed that God was on their side in the struggle, hence the literal translation of this phrase is that God is stomping on "a group or collection of persons or things with certain characteristics in common" (one definition of vintage) which held in its bosom a large store of wrath against the United States.
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John Brown's body lies a'moldering in the grave,
...which brings us back to the "construction" thread! 
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We just keep a-weavin' 'n' a-threadin' things together, don't we?
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And I'm a-understanding the construction better now.
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Is anyone else singing...
"He jumped without a parachute from 40,000 feet"?
No, but my brother was aboard an Experimental Engineering plane in WWII with a medical officer who was such a five letterman that nobody could tell him a thing, not even that his oxygen apparatus was hooked up wrong. He jumped from 40,000 feet. His parachute never opened.
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> a five letterman
From context I assume it means a know-it-all, but the expression is new to me. Care to elucidate on meaning, origin, and other points of interest, anyone?
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