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Well, I DO know what an indirect object is, and truly have no desire to
acquire livestock.

And, well, figs don't fly. PIGS fly. You'd think you Livestock chicks would
know that.

Oh...while I do know what an indirect object is, I don't think anyone really
NEEDS to know what it is. In fact, I have never been asked to diagram a
sentence in real life. It's stupid.

Kathryn


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In a message dated 4/8/04 6:52:15 AM, KathrynJB@... writes:

<< And, well, figs don't fly. PIGS fly. You'd think you Livestock chicks
would
know that.
>>

Idiomatically, one would not want to give a flying f*** out loud, and so figs
are plugged in that hole.

When pigs fly is a different idiom.

But here's what about flying livestock, poetry from my childhood:

Birdie, birdie in the sky
Why you do dat in my eye?
Me no laugh, me no cry;
Me just glad that cows don't fly.

and from Shakespeare

"Where the bee sucks, there suck I
In a cowslip's bell I lie
There I couch when owls to cry
On a bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily..."

But when Keith and I were young and in a madrigal group, we taught all our
friends to sing "there I crouch when cows do fly" on the third line, when we
weren't performing, which made performances harder, and more fun.

Sandra

Robyn Coburn

<<Birdie, birdie in the sky
Why you do dat in my eye?
Me no laugh, me no cry;
Me just glad that cows don't fly.>>

From my youth:

Spring is sprung,
The grass is riz.
I wonder where the flowers is?
The bird is on the wing.
Isn't that absurd -
I always thought the wing was on the bird.


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In a message dated 4/8/2004 8:05:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

Idiomatically, one would not want to give a flying f*** out loud, and so figs
are plugged in that hole.

When pigs fly is a different idiom.
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Well, yeah...it was a joke...obviously not a GOOD joke.....

Kathryn


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