In a message dated Mon, 27 May 2002 9:01:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, slang at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK writes:
> I enclose the Silver & Irving lyrics:
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> We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
> Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
A "ball-bearing red herring"? What pray tell is that? Is it any relation to a ball-bearing mousetrap (i.e. a tomcat?)
- Jim Landau