cast-iron becomes lead-pipe

[ronbutters at AOL.COM]

Typical 19th century American wry humor would replace rhe "cast-iron certainty" metaphor with a lead pipe certainty--so certain you could hit me pver the head with it (as did Professor Plum years later in the ballroom)
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