p.s.
Peter E. Zelz
pzelz at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 17 13:28:28 CDT 2006
My Dad, who lived in Alaska for a while in the '50s, used the expression "Colder than a well-digger's boot in the Yukon" whenever he had to describe the extreme.
Cheers,
z
----- Original Message -----
From: Steven
To: Ya Sam
Cc: richard.romeo at gmail.com; fqmorris at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: 9/17/2006 12:35:44
Subject: Re: p.s.
Colder than a well-digger's ass.
Steve--that's pretty cold. Tom Waits uses it somewhere on The Heart of Saturday Night.
On Sep 15, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Ya Sam wrote:
One can only guess what's in a letter that ends in 'i.e. boring, sick, phony and ... digger's ass"
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