Re: Question about an English expression
| From: | Robert Hailman <robert@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 2:08 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>
> Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
>
> > I think I encountered it maybe in one of Anne McCaffrey's books, but I
> > won't swear to it. Did it end, "we'd walk on the sea"? or something
> > remotely close to that?
>
> A google has turned up:
>
<snip>
> ...the world would smell bad.
> ...we'd be up to our necks in sushi.
<snip>
LOL! Those two are incredibly funny, if you ask me - more the first than
the second, though. Still, the both of them... LOL! Others are funny,
but not that funny. I've gotta use that some time. "If wishes were
fishes, the world would smell bad." Bellisimo!
--
Robert