[Ads-l] RES: Heard on Dr. Phil:

[David Daniel]

You clearly never heard of the father lobster who wouldn't let his daughter
marry a crab because the crab walked sideways. Needless to say there's a lot
of heartbreak and sadness. Then one day the crab shows up walking forwards.
"Goodness!" say father and daughter. "You're walking forwards!" "Yesh," says
the crab, "an I doan care who knowsh it eader."
DAD



Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Heard on Dr. Phil:
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"He [alcoholic hubby and dad] was literally walking sideways, down the
middle of the street!"

This suggests to me that the otherwise opaque phrase, "to get sideways,"
means "to get drunk." Of course,

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to come
from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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