bathinet/baskinet

[Amy West]

I hate to follow up on my own response: now I do recall seeing a
bathinet in action, but it wasn't my grandmother's. It was in an old
movie (30s-50s) that I now cannot recall the name of: main character
is a small-town newspaper man and he and his wife want to adopt a
child, they get turned down then suddenly do get a baby without much
notice. And there's this scene where they give the baby a bath, and
it's a bathinet that they use: a basin on a waist-high frame with a
cover on it: they lay the baby on the cover to undress the baby, pull
the cover back, bathe the baby, etc. It's a funny scene. (Rest of the
plot, the child ends up being taken away at some point, they blame
each other, they split up . . . .)

---Amy West

>Date:    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:49:10 -0500
>From:    Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM>
>Subject: Re: eggcorn? Baskinet
>
>Oh, good. It wasn't just me who made the Baskin-Robbins connection. I
>get the list on digest and so sometimes send responses before reading
>to the end and seeing others responses. Hey, if my mind is following
>the same tracks as LH's, I'm doin' pretty good!
>
>---Amy West

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