From: Banty 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers misc.kids misc.consumers.house alt.appalachian
Subject: Re: Liability: I'm not responsible for your kids!
Date: 19 Oct 2005 16:59:27 -0700

In article , Alt-Ctrl-Del
says...
>
>
>"Banty"  wrote in message 
>news:dj6dv402404@drn.newsguy.com...
>> In article , Ruth Baltopoulos 
>> says...
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ruth Baltopoulos wrote:
>>>
>>>> It can also be counterproductive to throw a
>>>>> hedgehog into the chickencoop :)
>>>
>>>> Just out of curiosity: What happens if you do? It eats all the eggs?
>>>
>>>I have no idea!  It just popped into my head as an attempt to convey
>>>throwing a totally unrelated idea into the mix and I liked the turn of 
>>>the
>>>phrase; hedgehogs might be a chicken's best friend for all I know! :)
>>
>> It's a good one, though - I actually pictured a porcupiney-thing being 
>> thrown
>> into a chicken coop.
>>
>> Sounds like one of those southern aphorsisms, like "deer caught in 
>> headlights"
>> (which, BTW, has gotten widespread use)  It puts such a picture in your 
>> mind.
>>
>> Banty
>
>Oh man, here are the one's that consider themselves to be of superior 
>intellectual capabilities because they are not from the South.  Hey Banty, 
>you are one of those aren't you.  The smugness and haughtiness always 
>reveals itself after a certain amount of jabbering.

??

Well, I'm Texas born and bred, live in New York state, honestly  thought that
little phrase was southern in origin (read it somewhere, I guess).  My history
also arms me with the knowledge that barely-stable, histrionic peronalities like
yours occur anywhere.

It was enough already how poorly you deal with this question of the Good
Samaritan principle, but flipping out like this over "deer caught in
headlights"?  Wow.

Banty