The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17902   Message #177113
Posted By: Amos
12-Feb-00 - 09:50 AM
Thread Name: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
Subject: RE: Pt. III - Additions to Mudcat Songbook
First cup ... 9:41, allowing for Texas time = 7:41--how do you sleep so late with 4 hockey players in the house?

Thing about these taglines is they summate (accurately or not) large chunks of a situation, and its dynamics, all in a neat lil package. So they are awfully handy because parents are often too tired, otherwise engaged or distracted (or just too busy being adult) to really look at, analyze, talk about the moment, especially a child's view of the moment.

The cliche of the moment seems to substitute for a lot of tiresome thinking. That's why they can be dangerous.

They don't reallytranslate well through time as we'd like to think.