To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I think it’s an Old Testament scriptural reference, but I’m not sure.
25 posted on
07/28/2009 11:47:38 AM PDT by
EternalVigilance
(The Obama COVER-UP continues...)
To: EternalVigilance
Hmmm...not familiar with it. I wonder if it is equivalent to “Whistling past the graveyard”?
To: EternalVigilance; Cletus.D.Yokel
48 posted on
07/28/2009 2:23:19 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: EternalVigilance; Cletus.D.Yokel
It’s a nautical superstition, dating from when ships were powered by wind, and to be becalmed was to be stranded.
If one whistled, long enough or the right way, a wind would manifest.
79 posted on
07/28/2009 3:42:24 PM PDT by
ExGeeEye
(Keep your powder dry, and your iron hidden.)
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