Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.games.frp,net.comics Subject: Re: The olde fisicks Message-ID: <852@gloria.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 09:26:19 EDT Article-I.D.: gloria.852 Posted: Tue Jun 18 09:26:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 08:26:10 EDT References: <2979@drutx.UUCP> <500@hou2g.UUCP> <982@ttds.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 14 Xref: linus net.games.frp:1443 net.comics:1463 [Oh that Buggy Boogie Woogie sweeps me off my feet] > >... an odor of sulphur and brimstone ... > > Will somebody please tell me the difference between sulphur and brimstone. > Every dictionary I've consulted told me they were the same thing. > > Leif Euren euren@ttds (...mcvax!enea!ttds!euren) Two common proverbial phrases in English are "fire and brimstone" and "sulphur and molasses." Occasionally somebody crosses them. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel