[PW] Finger in the dike

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>:

> At 03:51 PM 12/18/2007, you wrote:
>> On Dec 18, 2007 11:40 AM, John P. Dyson <dyson at indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Ever since the last raid, Tom, nobody gets to play faro in my parts.
>>
>> I should hope that no one save your significant other and your doctor
>> is playing in your parts.
>>
>> --
>> Karen Lofstrom
>
>
> Hence the expression when someone asks John how things are
> going in his parts --
>
> "oh, faro to meddling."
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu


Hmmm: way down in Faro's land, Karen posits doctors without borders, 
and Tom wagers a penny to see what one's hiding. Why do I suppose that 
the preferred holiday gift there is finger-pulls?

Seeing VI VI VI in all of this,

JD