On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Doc wrote:
Dude.
Fire up your favorite Open Source browser. Go to
http://www.google.com
Do a search for this (quotation marks included):
"Teach Grandpa to suck eggs"
Doc
BTW Google doesn't find the quoted string...
I'd never heard that expression so I got curious and looked it up.
Argh.
Once again, what I thought was a universal expression turns out to be
a Texasism. I was 35 when I found that the entire English-speaking
world doesn't "put stuff up" (put stuff away).
"teaching Grandpa [or Grandma] to suck eggs" is analogous to
explaining long division to a physicist.
Or to explaining S/390 technology to Sridhar....
Doc