waking jonas is dealing with that outfit.

“in like a lion, out like a lamb?”

after an informal office study, 2 out of 4 of my coworkers had never heard the old saying “in like a lion, out like a lamb.” this was surprising to me, because in elementary school, a lion and a lamb were always the theme of our cut & paste calendars at craft time. i just assumed that if every kid at sand hill knew this, it must be common knowledge.

the internet, being the high source of all factoids (factoid being facitious, not the CNN version of the word) gives me quite a few hits on google, and even suggests an arts & crafts idea for kids similar to my elementary school days.

i believe the best explaination of the phrase is the most simple. but what about the history? where did it come from? is there a country? a time period? oh USA today knows, and phrases.org offers an explanation. the short answer? basically, it’s old and we really don’t know.

but, if you haven’t heard it before you’ve just heard it now.

i’m all about spreading information. like lice.

uhh, Id like to meet the people who were not aware of this saying … then I would get really drunk and ruthlessly make fun of them without feeling any sort of guilt. I spose they havent heard of ‘april showers bring may flowers’ either.

maybe it’s because everything is off season in seattle. here it’s more like “february showers bring march flowers…and then they drown in april and then may comes and then it starts getting too warm for them so they just give up.”

yeah.

I had never actually heard of this before now. this what happens when you grow up in alaska.