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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: [SCKY] IN CLOSING THURSDAY 10 JULY 2003 - PUZZLER
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:19:46 -0500

Ok ... I know you are sitting on the edge of your chair to learn the answer
to my trivia question of last Thursday. Two listers got the right answer.

I asked where the expression came from during early settlement times of "as
easy as falling off a log." I had some great answers including building a
log cabin and falling off, using logs to get across a river etc.

The correct answer, if oral tradtion is correct, is as follows. Mama and
Papa are building a new homestead or working outside. They had a little one
and Mama can't hold the baby and work too. So she would lay the baby on a
nearby log. Baby have round bottom. Baby fall off the log. So, Americans,
being ingenious invented a strap to put around the baby and fasten him/her
to the log so it wasn't as easy as falling off a log. Our first seat belts,
maybe???

This week's puzzler is straight forward - give me a definition of a
perambulator and give me the name of one of these that I have posted about
on my Barren Co posts many times over the years.

Make your guesses directly to me - I'll post the answer next Thursday.

See you tomorrow - Sandi



Colonel Sandi Gorin
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