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OtherDave Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! (239* d) RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! 30 Nov 06


It's a manufactured colloquialism, but I won't let that stop me... a remembered bit of Marshall Dodge, New England humorist, speaking in a solid-maple Maine drawl, a farmer talking about the newly arrived child of neighbors...

"I could take a sharp knife and a piece of knotty pine, and whittle a better-looking baby than those two made..."


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