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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...)
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To: EternalVigilance

Hmmm...not familiar with it. I wonder if it is equivalent to “Whistling past the graveyard”?


26 posted on 07/28/2009 11:49:17 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Palin shrugged.)
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To: EternalVigilance; Cletus.D.Yokel

Here ya go:

http://books.google.com/books?id=I4fBI3yuj7MC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=%E2%80%9CWhistling+for+a+wind%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=uiw9s7D2zr&sig=h_pKEY7gt8sW6m9CXFg8x_-BFa4&hl=en&ei=wmpvSqPzE4awMI-kvNwI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10


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...)
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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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