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Subject:Re: Marvel at my stupidity From:Kathi Jan Knill <Kathi -dot- Knill -at- TEMPLATE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 24 Aug 1999 17:02:14 -0400
>>Crazy as it seems, I remember hearing: "By the skin of my
teeth".
>
>>-Barry
Really, thank you. Now, I wonder what it means.
By the way, I have a cute story about this thread... (I'll keep
it to the short version)
When my aunt would ask my cousin (a 3 year old -- at the time)
what story he wanted to hear before bed, his reply was "The
Ston-Shtol-Man" (spelled like he said it).
She had no idea what he was talking about. For days this went
on, until one day she pulled Pinocchio off the shelf. And she
was reading it when she came to the part that said.....
"The astonished old man...."
These things are always funny.
Kathi Jan Knill
Senior Technical Writer
Template Software
Kathi -dot- Knill -at- Template -dot- com
"Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a
positive and constructive one." --H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
