On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Doc wrote:
> > Dude.
> > Fire up your favorite Open Source browser. Go to
> > http://www.google.com
> > Do a search for this (quotation marks included):
> >
> > "Teach Grandpa to suck eggs"
> >
> >
> > Doc
> >
> >
>
> BTW Google doesn't find the quoted string...
>
> I'd never heard that expression so I got curious and looked it up.
Argh.
Once again, what I thought was a universal expression turns out to be
a Texasism. I was 35 when I found that the entire English-speaking
world doesn't "put stuff up" (put stuff away).
"teaching Grandpa [or Grandma] to suck eggs" is analogous to
explaining long division to a physicist.
Or to explaining S/390 technology to Sridhar....
Doc
Received on Sun Apr 28 2002 - 14:39:51 BST