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@hotmail.com> > >No, it's not doing laundry, it's being a laundress, traditionally >rock-bottom poverty back-braking labor, taken up only in extremis. > Chris Hayden replies: I am 101% positive that is not the kind of laundress she was talking about--where is the imagery that one would asociate with this--the steam the heat, the exhaustion, the dirty water the suffering, the screaming boss, the low wages--the image is of a person joyfully doing one's own laundry, not slaving in some infernal pit. By your reasoning "driver" would always mean some drunk who piles behind the wheel and kills a family of six on their way to prayer meetin'--"dog" would mean vicious, rabies infected attack dog--you must view the context in which the word is used. >"Doing the Vida Loca" is also a big smash. Smashness is value-neutral. And I like that song too, as well as "Rondo Allo Turco" by Mozart and "All Blues" by Miles and "Your Cheatin' Heart" by Hank Williams, etc Take a chill pill, man! Get some enjoyment out of life and stop seeing awful things lurking behind every corner and bush! >Glad you like it. On ne discute pas... > >Mark > >At _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com