[ExI] evolution has given us gnus

spike spike66 at att.net
Fri Jul 3 15:16:27 UTC 2009


 

> ...On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty

> ...And anyway, Damien and Spike 
> >> make for far better debaters...  ; )
> >
> > Pipe down, John, or the moderator will be forced to shoo-- 
> To shoo you away.
> > With his shoe. As one would shoo a gnu. (Shooly no one 
> would be crool 
> > enough to *shoe* a gnu.)
> 
> People shoe horses, why not a gnu?  Well, not "knot a gnu" 
> that would be mean.  ("Mean" meaning 'cruel'; not 'average') 


Oh, so that's where that old saying came from:  Know gnus is good, gnus.

spike







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