I think my daddy was paraphrasing Walt Whitman. He (my daddy, not Walt Whitman)also used 'hamburger' as a verb. To hamburger something was to mess it up badly.
Marvels
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The new acropolis museum opened in Athens while I was reading Barry
Unsworth’s Land of Marvels. (Rob’s fuller review of this novel can be found
here.) Set ...
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4 comments:
As my daddy would say, "If it's true, it ain't braggin'."
An enjoyable, intersting, literate blog deserves to be read. I'm glad yours is.
Thoughtful, too.
That number is very impressive! And I like Jim H's daddy's quote. I'm going to start using it.
Shan:
I think my daddy was paraphrasing Walt Whitman. He (my daddy, not Walt Whitman)also used 'hamburger' as a verb. To hamburger something was to mess it up badly.
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