On 30 Jul 2006 01:11:01 -0500, Bob Terwilliger
> wrote in
>:

> Nicolaas wrote:
>
>> "All **** and vinegar" would be similar but with added
>> connotations of stroppiness.
>
> An episode of "The Simpsons" had Abe Simpson (Homer's father) declaiming,
> "I'm an old man, and I'm full of **** and vinegar!"
>
> Then in a more subdued voice, he went on, "I used to just be full of
> vinegar..."
>
> :-)
>
> Bob

<cackle>
That would have been before they put him on frusemide....

--
Die dulci fruere,
Nicolaas.



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