[AT] old expressions

[kgw]

farmer, my Dad, who was born (1918) and  reared in Whitley county, IN, 
used that one on me once when i was a youngun---IIRC, Dad was going in 
to work one Saturday---one of NC State's experimental farms I suppose, 
and I had asked if a friend could go along...

I too have used it even recently with grandkids---sure is TRUE!!

Gene Waugh
Elgin, Illinois USA

Indiana Robinson wrote:

>	My maternal grandfather was told one once as a boy (in 
>Evansville, IN) and he remembered it all of his life. I 
>sometimes use it now. He was playing with 2 other boys one 
>day as a youth and they were pretty much acting the fools 
>as boys sometimes do. A stranger came along and looked at 
>them shaking his head as he said: "One boy is a boy. Two 
>boys are half a boy. Three boys are no boy at all".
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>--
>"farmer"
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