Well. You know this embarrassing scene where you've been singing allong with some pop-song for years (practically screaming your heart out in fact) only to suddenly see the lyrics in print and realize...

Blush

While Steven is busy at boldly bringing daisy where no daisy-man has gone before, the rest of us kept to the standard Outerthought way of live. Which for some reason allowed company lunch to deteriorate into one of those spit out your famous geek-quotes. (Off record, and you might be surprised, but Bruno ran a lousy score!)

Anyway, silly me always thought the expression 'a horse of a different color' only made sense to people knowledgeable to 'Emerald City'. Me being impressed and all by a movie not only influencing modern language, but even creating the mini-cultural context in which one could deduct the etymological traces for the semantic novelties.

But to my surprise, the web proudly produces evidence that no one less then Shakespeare himself knew about the beast.
Boy, this sure doesn't look like Kansas any more!

Oh, and a late runner up this morning almost got us started again: "The blow blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds". (from the exploding whale)