Day: December 3, 2009

Universal Experience

Has this ever happened to you: You’re at a bar with a handful of friends and acquaintances. You have a long conversation with one of them about antique watches, Native American carved boxes, motion lamps… that old chestnut. And then halfway through the evening, when you’re talking to someone else, he interjects: —“Oh, wait: it’s you!” [What does “cut a rug” mean?]

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