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| From | "Bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net> |
| Subject | Re: You can tell it's not 1998 on Audities when.. |
| Date | Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:14:03 -0700 |
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> As for the gift horse, I love finding out the reasons for popular
> sayings. So here's the deal - historically, the most common way to quickly
> check the health of a horse was to check it's teeth. So looking a gift horse
> in the mouth suggests the socially ungraceful act of checking the teeth of
> a horse which was given to you as a gift.
And if someone buys you an evening with a hooker, it's not polite
to take notice of her crooked teeth....that's looking a gift whore in
the mouth....(sorry, I don't know what came over me).
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