In a message dated 6/28/2004 10:17:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, JulieReneB@xxxxxxx writes: What confuses you? Bush just couldn't say it right. He forgot the second half What strikes me as interesting is that he wanted to qualify the expression as being 'an old saying in Tennessee' -- was the speech being delivered there? He then notes he _knows_ it's a saying in Texas. I would think that the proverb is actually generalized all over the United States, and possibly of English origin? I do not have the Oxford Dictionary of English proverbs to hand, but the post I sent earlier -- with the online link -- says it's an Oriental (Chinese) proverb. So what's the source for believing it's only Tennessee/Texas? Cheers, JL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html