[lbo-talk] Dodd bill

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 25 10:03:01 PDT 2008


shag wrote:


> i would add about the home v house thing, which is something i noticed in
> the way people would talk about it: home is reserved for something you
> live in, where you want to enjoy yourself doing the things *you* like to
> do without worrying about neighbors who don't like your bird feeder.
>
> a house, though, is the term used by folks who are talking about it as an
> investment.

You are in Eddie Guest territory: "It takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home." Dorothy Parker wrote, "I'd rather flunk my Wasserman test / Thkan read a poem by Eddie Guest." But they named a Detroit junior high school after him.

Carrol



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