sharadeth
sharadeth t1_iuk99er wrote
Reply to Happy Halloween 🎃 🧹🧙🏻♀️ by mckennabrunzell
Might be a strange thing to hone in on but, those are some nice boots. Looks like Victorian walking boots with no zipper in the photo at least. Been trying to find something like that for my wife. Any tips on where to look?
sharadeth t1_jaqq44v wrote
Reply to comment by Business-Emu-6923 in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice
Nope, and computers will be useless until they do.