I realized that this record existed a few days ago. I’m enamored of it. First off, it’s a good jargon dictionary. As you might remember, I like those .
Believe it or not, it also has some good wisdom to it. The hip commandment: “Thou shalt not bug thy neighbor, which means be cool.”
It’s sampled on a DJ Food track, The Riff. I heard the track a number of years ago but hadn’t made the connection. Nice.
“It’s very important to work on your brains.” More wisdom.
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On Trusting, and ThrowingFrom: halftheshebang.com
Post Date: 2008-04-13 20:08:18
It’s important to take stock of your idiom before you use it. You might look at a large person. They might be shady — not to be trusted. You might then say “I trust that person about as far as I could throw him.”
You’d be right. Were you to try to throw him, you would likely find it harder than it would be to throw a hard boiled egg.
Of a particularly dastardly hard boiled egg, you would not say “I trust that hard boiled egg about as far as I could throw ...
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