BS: A stitch in time

Subject: BS: A stitch in time
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 08:15 PM

A stitch in time - what is it and how do you sew it? Why does it save nine?

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Amos
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 08:23 PM

It is a stitch taken to prevent fraying when you first notice that a seam is wearing out. It saves nmine -- or any other likely number -- because it prevents unraveling of stitches further down the seam so they do not need replacement. The statement is a metaphor for heading trouble off before it multiplies, taking timely action,etc.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 09:12 PM

Hear hear! I thought it was supposd to be self explanatory.

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 09:36 PM

**I** knew that...

but now I wonder why they say a funny person/situation will "keep you in stitches"

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 09:51 PM

Because you laugh your ass off and it has to be sewn back on.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 09:54 PM

oh...well, then...I'm glad I asked where I could get the straight dope!

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 10:58 PM

You might get a stitch in your side from laughing so hard. Like a stitch when you're running for too long.

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Amos
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 10:59 PM

Actually that is a different definition of the word, meaning a sharp pain in the side from laughing too hard for too long. Nevertheless, if you do laugh your ass off, stitiched will be called for. Please let me know when/if this occurs, as I would like to watch....


A

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 11:09 PM

nawww...as long as this golden bolt in my navel is kept tight, my ass is safe!(interesting idea for a spectator sport, Amos....maybe you could tickle a cheerleader of something!)

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 11:57 PM

Thank you, Spaw! I wasn't asking the obvious...thought you all'd know that! Was hoping to unleash some of the famous Mudcat creativity!

Of course since time is a human construct, I guess it's really moot, but I quite like the idea of some Cosmic Seamtresses/Tailors busy on some Plane taking stitches in and saving nine of something...perhaps lives of cats?

Whatevah! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Allan C.
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 12:08 AM

It is a Zen thing actually. You must be the needle. You must see yourself as the camel as it passes through...

Oops! Wrong metaphor.

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Amos
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 12:33 AM

Aw, kat, I'm sorry -- I thought your gears were slipping and was trying to be nice about it!! :>))

Actually there is such a thing as taking a stitch in Time, but it has to be self defined. If you try to use someone else's definition it doesn't work. No one has ever been able to explain why this is but, well, there ya go!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 04:06 AM

Stitch in time - the one the mother of 8 children gets her husband to do in a vasectomy.

I think I would prefer the Lorenna Bobbit method actually.... I feel like a nice long drive.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Micca
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 06:04 AM

Try the Isaac Asimov short story that ends with a truly Art Thiemeian Pun!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 06:30 AM

Liz, I thought Lorenna did it with scissors, but if you say it was a golf club, I'll accept that.....

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 11:11 AM

D'ya mean this one, Micca: A Niche in time saves Stein?!

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Micca
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 01:58 PM

Exacrtly Kat!!! Truly Themeian

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 02:31 PM

What about the guy walking down the railroad track along a bank planted with thyme - when suddenly a train appeared - if it hadn't been for the hollow hew found amongst the plantings he would have been crushed - so a niche in thyme saved Stein

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: zanderfish3 (inactive)
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 02:45 PM

Actually it's a song by Mike Waterson

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 03:40 PM

If the man walking by the raailroad tracks, near the growing thyme, was one's lover, one could say a niche in thyme saved thine!

You're right, Micca, one our Fine Art could easily have purloined er...coined!

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Mr Red
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 05:31 PM

AND what about the fabric of the space/time continuum? I think katlaughing was just trying to needle us - in a thread - it seams.

Don't say it - I got my coat on the way in...........

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Amos
Date: 06 Aug 03 - 11:10 PM

An eye for an eye, Mister Red, and remember that Que Esta, Sera, or the other way around...If anyone could make the time space continuum pleat for mercy, it would be our Katlaughing!...

A

Subject: RE: BS: A stitch in time
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Aug 03 - 01:31 PM

I never for one minute suggested she was a miserable pleater. Is is this deja vu all over agian? (after Yogi Berra)