16 Oct
2010
16 Oct
'10
2:21 p.m.
> Geez, now it's newsworthy to *want* to build
things? I want to build a
> Saturn V. And I want a pony.
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
I assume you don't mean \pounds 25.00 (A
'pony' is a slang expression
over here for that sum of money). So I hace to wonder just what you want
a young horse for (Ues, I am well aware that youngish girls often have
this desite, but I didn't think that applied to you).
That is the origin of the phrase "I want a pony.". It has become a figure
of speech to refer to any irrational/unubtainable/silly desire. I assume
that Eric was using it figuratively, although I'm not in touch with his
current projects - nobody has yet launched a pony into space.
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