Googling and "egg-sucking" (was Re: "Toy" computers...)

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Mon Apr 29 18:17:52 2002

> --- Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com> wrote:
> > 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"
> > > BTW Google doesn't find the quoted string...
> I got one hit with this... "teaching grandpa to suck eggs"
>
> And a bunch more by using the exact phraseology I heard growing up...
>
> "teach your grandma to suck eggs"
>
> With Google, spelling (and precise word selection) counts.
>
> > Argh.
> > Once again, what I thought was a universal expression turns out to be
> > a Texasism.
>
> I would count it as an American Colloquialism, but I don't think of the
> phrase as uniquely Texan.

Today, we might get more mileage out of this with a slight
retooling:

    "You don't teach Gollem to suck eggses"

;)
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