LOL! Hi Michael.
6 days huh? Hmmm... I don't like to be predictable.
Glad to know I threw you a little with Jacques - hee hee. Loved your fdk. Thanks Michael!
Hi Laura!
That is one of my favorite little sayings - Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Heh. I might have been tempted to kill Jacques too. Thanks for the comments.
Hi Elisabeth. Jealousy rears its ugly head.
Thanks for the fdk. And maybe Lois has just forgotten how much work or how tedious research can be... after all, Jimmy is so useful.
Hah! Loved your fdk Jen. Glad I could keep you entertained in class - lol.
Courtesy of phrases.org a definition of "getting one's goat":
Get your goat
Meaning
Make you annoyed or angry.
Origin
The dictionary definition of goat is 'a ruminant quadruped of the genus Capra'. What's that got to do with being angry? Given the meaning of 'get your goat', we might expect to find goat as a slang term meaning anger or annoyance. That meaning is recorded in the US book Life in Sing Sing, 1904, which goat is given as a slang term for anger.
The phrase originated in the US and the first entry in print that I can find comes from a fanciful story about a burst water pipe that was printed in the US newspaper The Stevens Point Daily Journal, May 1909:
"Wouldn't that get your goat? We'd been transferring the same water all night from the tub to the bowl and back again."
The expression took a few years to cross the Atlantic. The first non-US citation isn't found until 1924 in the English author John Galsworthy's story White Monkey, and even there it is clearly seen as a recent innovation:
"That had got the chairman's goat! - Got his goat? What expressions they used nowadays!"
The following year, The Times printed a piece in memory of the then recently deceased Friedrich Baedeker. This included a side-swipe at American tourists and uses the phrase as a typical piece of Americana:
"... goggled Americans whispering aloud, 'Wa-al Sadie, these durned three star things get my goat'!"
A commonly repeated story which purports to explain the phrase's origin is that goats were placed with racehorses to keep them calm. When ne'er-do-wells who wanted the horse to race badly removed it, i.e. they 'got someone's goat', the horse became unsettled and ran badly. That's just the sort of tale that gets the folk etymology juices running. Let's just say that there's no evidence to support that story.
Heh. /me thanking the student for making her do research.
Oh, and all good questions, by the way.
Hee hee. Thanks for the comments.
Hi cp33. Yeah, Cat drug her slinky little hiney into this. But she might surprise you.
I'm glad you like the story. Thanks!
Hi Ann! You know how I love rollercoasters.
Hee hee. I'm so glad I was able to cause a few people to gasp with Jacques and his ring. Yes, poor Lois - going out with Claude. I really wonder how that dinner date is going to turn out... it could be quite interesting.
Ha ha! Yes, wrong Paris. *snicker* Thanks for the fdk, Ann.
Bob! Ha ha ha. I can't believe you had to go calm down and come back later.
Sorry to have scared you like that... well... not really... but I felt compelled to say so - heh. Thanks for the fdk.
LOL - SJH. And you could be right... this could very well get the ball rolling.
Thanks for the fdk.
Hi anonpip! Yay!! So glad that you are addicted.
Thanks for the review/fdk. Glad to have you as a reader. Yes, how could Lois accept a date with Claude? Even to get back at Clark??? Hope you enjoy the date.
Thanks everyone so much for all the comments and fdk! I enjoyed every little comment.
Hope you enjoy the next part... when I get it posted. (And, Michael, don't hold your breath for the 6 days... it could cause severe discomfort, not to mention a slightly blue discoloration)
Thank you!!!
