Pearls of Wisdom or Hairballs of Wisdom? You Decide.

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Moonmyst wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23241 :

<< Since there've been a couple of 'southernisms' threads, I'm going
to chime in with something one of my way deep in Tennessee friends
says whenever somebody gets upset about something that they really
can't do anything about:

"Just put on your big girl panties and get over it!" >>

Hey, I saw that on a t-shirt!

Amber Falls wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23200 :

<< Please, add mine, too. It's 30-10, I'll be 47 :D >>

Hey, you're one week older than me (November 7, 1957 -- but I don't
want to be in the birthday database). I saw a young man on the bus
yesterday in a Jim Morrison t-shirt and thought at him: "You weren't
even born yet when he died."

David Frankis wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23249 :

<< Where do I go to register my substitute birthday? >>

Arrgh.

Lee Storm wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23313 :

<< Oh--yeah--the double meaning of "Sloppy Joe" really got me. Now,
the way I knew it in New York, Sloppy Joe was a ground-meat based
affair that was slapped onto hamburger rolls and ended up being a
delightful mess that usually tasted good. >>

That's what it's been all my life in Los Angeles.

Neri wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/23317 :

<< "hocus pocus" was meant to sound Latin, but (to my knowledge) has
no meaning. >>

It's said to be a mispronunciation of "Hoc est corpus"  ("this is [my]
body") from Roman Catholic communion.