Has this ever happened to you:
You’re at a bar with a handful of friends and acquaintances. You have a long conversation with one of them about antique watches, Native American carved boxes, motion lamps… that old chestnut.
And then halfway through the evening, when you’re talking to someone else, he interjects: —“Oh, wait: it’s you!”
[What does “cut a rug” mean?]
doesn’t cut a rug mean to dance?
No. It means that if you have been invited to someone’s home and you never want to be invited back again you cut their rug when they are not looking and then later on, after you have left, safely, they figure out who it must have been who cut their rug up and they never invite you back. This happens to my cats all the time and it always works for them but I have yet to try it. The dance idea, I can’t imagine where that came from. Probably Poor Richard’s Almanac or cook book or something. Ben Franklin was good at inventing these concepts.
Oh, the YOU idea, I forgot. Probably, you were at some wild party somewhere, maybe long ago now, and you were talking to this person in some other context and it was dark and you were both rip roaring drunk and I won’t describe the rest of what happened but you know and then later on – now – you are talking to that same person whom, because you can’t recognize each other because of the aforementioned reasons, suddenly has like a euphony-like occasion and realizes that it is YOU he/her/it is conversing to(instead of with) and that is, most likely, what happened, dear. This happens all the time to me. I just shine it on; that is my recommendation. It gets worse as you get older because of most of the people you thought you used to know you don’t(anymore). There is simply nothing rational to be done about it except pray. Pray.
Woooooooooooooooof…
…to trim one’s pubic hair?
Does the reCaptcha phrase “Kissinger bengali” not quite sit well with anyone else? (Yes-the latter was lowercase.)
One of the pups recently “shat a rug”, a few days after having been left home for an afternoon.
Can I get an “amen”?!
Hey Eleni, I don’t have your new e-mail. Want to send it to me? Amen. MB
So, Elise: Is “cut a rug” what you do when you “break a leg”?
xoxoxo
G