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Keiva - That would be "The Gold Rush".
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Musick, speaking of "The Gold Rush" reminds me of a miner, 49-er and his daughter, Clementine.
She had the distinction of wearing herring boxes for shoes before succumbing to the waters...
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"That would be "The Gold Rush". I can still remember Chaplin delicately nibbling the nails from the shoe.
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Definitely delicate, wwh--you couldn't hear a single crunch.
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Long ago, in a college musical, there were a few verses about "footprints on the dashboard upside down'.
A whole bunch of URLs about it, all plagiarised from the original.
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An American literature professor from decades ago said that there was a Puritan sitting on the back seat of every car parked on Lovers' Lane. Seems an appropriate comment on Thanksgiving Day and these dashing footprints...
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pediment
Yes, (in temple language) a pediment is the triangular area between the frieze and the roof. I suspected that it was so named because that's the area where relief sculptures were generally placed and the feet of the sculptures would be on the bottom of the pediment. Also, in Etruscan temples, statues were placed on the roof, so their feet would be on top of the pediment.
Apparently, this is wrong. M-W says that it's an alteration of periment, which is possibly derived from pyramid.
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Jazz, Your theory was interesting, at least. And if the freize presented fauns, trolls, and such, it would have been an impediment on which they rested their frolicsome little feet.
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In the early days of wine making, the grapes were crushed by the (?) dainty feet of virgins. I wonder that there was not a shortage of qualified treaders. And just as girls painted their legs due to stocking shortage in WWII, the girls must have had colorful underpinnings when they finished.
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