From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
Sorry – it is a reference to Monty Python, where a father is trying to get his son to marry.
Edit: as one of your honorary fathers, I advise you to go watch the movie, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”
NaoPb! You must marry this girl! She has huge … tracts of land!
And no singing!
I was sure that Buddy had done this, in “Elf”, but I looked it up and that had been maple syrup. This looks even better.
That’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
Exactly. This is a 60s thing, not a 70s thing.