Today I walked my fish

[neil]

> From: "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
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> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:59:57 -0400
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>   Roger Shuy <rshuy at MONTANA.COM> writes:
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> I just got an email from a friend in southern Virginia who used the
> expression, "Today I walked my fish." She said it's a "Southernism" for high
> humidity. I never heard it before and I couldn't find it in DARE. Anyone
> else know it?
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> No, but here in Philadelphia we have been having extremely high heat and
> humidity, and the other day I said "I don't know whether to walk or swim."
> As far as I know, and for what little it's worth, that was a
> spur-of-the-moment invention.
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> -- Mark
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Of course, if your name was Eric Satie you'd be promonading your lobster.

--Neil Crawford

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