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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Dearth of a salesman #77169 08/01/2002 9:28 AM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England FishonaBike veteran FishonaBike veteran Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,346 Sussex, England carry...coals...Newcastle I've thought about this some more, and you're all quite right and I'm wrong The original construction was definitely "carrying coals to Newcastle", meaning a pointless effort. The salesmanship ones are "selling snow to the Eskimos" and "selling sand to the Arabs", and are pretty universal anyway. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted best dam site of the day tsuwm 07/29/2002 2:33 PM Re: best dam site of the day RhubarbCommando 07/29/2002 3:33 PM Re: best dam site of the day wwh 07/29/2002 11:55 PM Re: best dam site of the day Buffalo Shrdlu 07/30/2002 12:30 AM Re: best dam site of the day GallantTed 07/30/2002 12:30 AM Re: best dam site of the day wwh 07/30/2002 7:09 PM Re: best dam site of the day FishonaBike 07/30/2002 11:41 PM Re: Now, for the worst dam site wwh 07/30/2002 11:59 PM Salesmanship consuelo 07/31/2002 12:14 AM Re: Salesmanship GallantTed 07/31/2002 1:53 AM Re: Salesmanship sjm 07/31/2002 2:01 AM Re: Salesmanship hev 07/31/2002 3:17 AM Re: Salesmanship sjm 07/31/2002 3:56 AM Re: Salesmanship hev 07/31/2002 5:51 AM Re: Salesmanship sjm 07/31/2002 6:18 AM Re: Salesmanship RhubarbCommando 07/31/2002 10:46 AM Givin' em what they don't need Hyla 07/31/2002 3:29 PM Re: Givin' em what they don't need AnnaStrophic 07/31/2002 3:42 PM Re: Dearth of a salesman maverick 07/31/2002 11:31 PM Re: Dearth of a salesman FishonaBike 08/01/2002 9:28 AM Re: Dearth of a salesman RhubarbCommando 08/01/2002 2:10 PM Re: best dam site of the day RhubarbCommando 07/31/2002 10:57 AM Re: best dam site of the day tsuwm 07/30/2002 7:32 PM Re: best dam site of the day Chemeng1992 07/31/2002 11:05 AM Re: best dam site of the day tsuwm 07/31/2002 11:54 AM best non-dam site of the day tsuwm 08/01/2002 2:40 PM Re: best dam site of the day Sparteye 08/03/2002 1:59 PM Re: best dam site of the day TEd Remington 08/03/2002 3:04 PM 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. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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