Googling and "egg-sucking" (was Re: "Toy" computers...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Apr 2002

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  --- Doc &lt;doc(a)mdrconsult.com&gt; wrote:
 > 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"
 > BTW Google doesn't find the quoted string...  I got one hit with this...
"teaching grandpa to suck eggs"

 And a bunch more by using the exact phraseology I heard growing up...

 "teach your grandma to suck eggs"

 With Google, spelling (and precise word selection) counts.

  Argh.
 Once again, what I thought was a universal expression turns out to be
 a Texasism. 
 I would count it as an American Colloquialism, but I don't think of the
 phrase as uniquely Texan. 
Today, we might get more mileage out of this with a slight
retooling:

    "You don't teach Gollem to suck eggses"

;)