[at-l] Re: Blue Blazes

["Thomas McGinnis" <tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us>]

So.....
"Going to Hell in a Hand basket"
is really 
blue blazing
with the Slackpacker Express?

Hey Nina? If we rewrite Pittsia Burghovia hard enough, will we come up with Mephistopheles?

Sloetoe
(suddenly examining his cosmological precepts)

>>> Linda Patton <lpatton@mailer.fsu.edu> 04/05/00 11:01AM 
From: "Picturesque expressions: A thematic dictionary" 2nd ed. 1985.
	Impulsively; rashly; vehemently; in the extreme.  This slang
expression refers to the blue flames created by the burning of brimstone;
hence, a direct reference to hell and the devil.  An old superstition
ascribed a blue flame to the presence of the devil.


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