[PW] Meaning and origin of "to carry someone else's water"

[John P. Dyson]

Since I'm the one who offered the URL-only response that took up a 
minimum of bandwidth to send originally, I will now take somewhat more 
bandwidth to respond. The request stated, "Patron would like to know 
the meaning and origin" of the subject-line phrase above. I sent the 
URL with the admittedly unstated message, "Send the patron here." I 
wasn't inviting anyone on the list to go there, but if someone chose to 
do so, I assumed the seeker would have certain Wombatic skills such as 
those that Barb possesses. I won't apologize for that expectation, but 
I will offer a cool glass of tea and a seat in the shade to anyone who 
is still suffering from oppressive bandwidth vapors.

John Dyson


Quoting Reference <ref_lib at yahoo.com>:

> Sorry, I didn't realize including just the URL
> would use up email bandwidth. And I found the
> "carry water" reference immediately with the find
> function.
>
> Barb
>
> --- Michael Hart <hart at pglaf.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> There was a lot of other information on that
>> page,
>> I should think a little cut & paste would have
>> the
>> effect of saving a lot of people's
>> time/bandwidth,
>> if anyone thinks of those things any longer.
>>
>>
>> mh
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Reference wrote:
>>
>> > Sure, sometimes, if it's all that's needed.
>> The
>> > earl in this case answered the question quite
>> > nicely, with the help of the find function.
>> IMHO.
>> >
>> > Barb
>> >
>> >
>> > --- Michael Hart <hart at pglaf.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Is it now the accepted practice to insert a
>> URL
>> >> without any additional info
>> >> as to what is contained therein?