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From: "Cece" <>
Subject: Re: [OLDWORDS] Re: OLD-WORDS-D Digest V00 #119
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:11:29 -0400


Just had to relate this story, as it is fresh on my mind.

A relative had not seen my grandson since he was a baby and now he is 6.
She poninted to his hairline and wondered why his hair was standing up. He
replied, "Oh, its just where the cow licked me when I was a baby and its
been this way ever since !!"

Happy Holiday and Let Freedom Ring !!

Cece

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Subject: [OLDWORDS] Re: OLD-WORDS-D Digest V00 #119


>
>
> Mossy horn brings to mind the terms "greenhorn" and "not dry behind
the
> ears." In the kindest sense meaning naive, I suppose. My
grandmother
> used to say (when something wasn't done right in the first place),
"you
> have to lick your calf over." The not-dry-behind ears--I've been
> told--refers
> to the last place a cow licks her calf dry after its birth, hence
> someone very
> young, or unsophisticated. ~~Dixie in Indiana
>
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