> Aw heck! I was hoping it was an original composition. But I still like it.
>
> When I was a kid, I made this up:
> "How can a brown cow eat green grass and give white milk that makes yellow butter?" You may have heard it before, but not before 1942.
>
> Another one of my original ideas that you may have heard before is the use of "well-oiled machine" to describe a basketball team that works well together. I used it in an article that I wrote when I worked for a small daily paper in the 1950's. The next week, I heard a radio announcer use the expression. I remember thinking that at least one person had read my article. Since then, I have heard it on National TV and I've read it in wire service articles.
> Howard

That's awesome! It must be nice to be able to say something like that. I don't think I could ever come up with anything that hasn't been said before. And I definately could not make what I wrote up myself. I think my head would explode trying to think of it!

Wedge