Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:22 PM -0400 6/10/07, Sam Clements wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Grant Barrett" <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 2:19 PM
>Subject: Re: Beans, etc, PS: The Battle Hymn...
>
>>On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:08, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>   "Girls rule, boys drool!"
>>>
>>>   and
>>>
>>>   "Girls go to college to get more knowledge.
>>>   Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider."
>>
>>My 11-year-old niece in Missouri says both of these and has for a few
>>years. I believe she picked them up from television, though God knows
>>from which of the many vapid shows she watches.
>>
>>Grant Barrett
>My 14-year-old daughter knows the second one(Jupiter/stupider).  She "says"
>she remembers it from PRE-SCHOOL!  I think I would trust her judgement.  She
>says she has never heard the first one--"rule/drool."
>
>Sam Clements
>
This sounded vaguely familiar, and sure enough...

Date:         Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:48:19 +0800
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From:         Laurence Horn <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Vegan prescriptivism

At 1:26 PM +0100 6/29/01, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>Just ran across this site which promotes 'animal friendly' alternatives to
>common sayings. Includes suggestion that you say "I have a bean to pick
>with you" rather than "I have a bone to pick with you."
>
>I was actually looking to find other expressions where dog/cat are
>contrasted (other than 'raining cats & dogs' and 'fight like cats & dogs').
>If you know of any, let me know, please.
>
>Lynne

Well, for those who were dragged by kids to see "Homeward Bound: The
Incredible Journey", there's "CATS ROOL, DOGS DROOL". So are we asked
to turn the expressions above into, say, 'raining peas and beans' and
'fight like sun and cloud'?

larry

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(and no, I can't recall what this had to do with vegan
prescriptivism).  The movie in question was released in 1993,
supporting the aforementioned "early 1990s" as the heyday of this
particular meme/snowclone.

LH

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