That's from Holiday (1938). Try this one: "If you took all of the hair off of their combined chests, you wouldn't have enough to make a wig for a grape."
Yep. Copper works. I tied pieces of copper wire around my citrus trees. Not tightly. Just hanging so the slugs can't get past. They used to eat up the leaves. Now they stay away.
I know what you mean, Lady Day. About designing in your head. I keep coming up with new ones. My favorite was the Threadkiller's black fedora. Something to put on your flight jacket for every thread you've shot down.:)
My uncle told me about how his grandmother used to send packages to her relatives who were still in East Germany after WW2. She would smuggle things like cigarettes and steel and flint inside the smaller storebought boxes within the main package. To wrap the main package she used many layers of...
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