Posted on 04/30/2005 12:05:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 04/30/2005 12:28:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Jennifer Wilbanks, a Georgia woman missing since Tuesday night, has been found alive and well in New Mexico, a friend of the family told CNN.
Wilbanks was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and told her family she had been abducted and taken there, according to John Kim, a friend of Wilbank's family.
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And other one:
From Peter Zoulas:
I work on sales and sometimes (thankfully not too often) my clients get cold feet and back out of the deal. I understand this phrase is more commonly used to describe brides who change their mind at the last moment. I have often wondered from where this phrase originates. Could you help me please?
Kenneth McKenzie, who was a professor of Italian at Princeton in the earlier half of this century (yes, we are of the "this is still the 20th century" school), actually wrote a paper about the origin of this term, back in 1912. It seems that Ben Johnson provides the first recorded use of the phrase inWell, marble is cold! English, in his Volpone of 1605: "Let me tell you: I am not, as your Lombard proverb saith, cold on my feet; or content to part with my commodities at a cheaper rate than I am accustomed: look not for it." Apparently Johnson learned the "Lombard proverb" from an Italian acquaintance and then used it in Volpone, which takes place in Italy. Professor McKenzie even discovered that the Italian phrase was still in use in Lombardy in the early part of the 20th century. Its figurative meaning in Italian was "to be without money". It is thought that the term moved, in English, from the "without money" meaning to "unwillingness to continue in some endeavor because one is out of money" (such as a poker game) to simply "unwillingness to proceed".
The only problem we can see with Professor McKenzie's explanation is that we don't know where the phrase went from 1605 to 1893. The latter year is when the phrase next appears in the English written record: "I knew this was the way it would be. They got cold feet" (Stephen Crane, Maggie: a Girl of the Streets).
Uhhh ....... cause she's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic?
Were they only registered at Macy's? If in Atlanta, isn't there some other store they would use as well?
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My husband and I thought about it! not because our wedding was out of hand, because it wasn't, but it's still stressful coordinating two families that have never met before, and all the travel arrangements!
This story is cracking me up.... it was a wild ride, and everyone's foregone conclusion has been up-ended at least once.
Just reported on FOX that she purchased the bus ticket a week ago... Definitely planned...
Charges should be filed against her!
I was thinking about having a 15-year-anniversary party.....may do just that!
I was thinking about having a 15-year-anniversary party.....may do just that!
She had it all planned out.
Did she buy just one?
Hubby was asking before he left for work where "cold feet" came from.
He was cheerful and thought the groom ought to suck it up and do the right thing and marry her even though she is "high strung", bless her heart.
rut roh......... She be in a heap of trouble now!
ouch............... girls with cold feet are a lot of trouble.
I think their more than a little pissed that they look like fools now.
Why didn't she leave a note!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If any charges get filed, should be obstruction of justice.
If I heard correctly, she purchased the ticket in Gainesville.
Norcross to Vegas.
I'm guess I'm not a 'silverware pattern' type of woman. All that saccharine wedding stuff just doesn't interest me. I prefer form and function over frilly. :o)
Bought it with cash, most likely. They just found out when she told them what happened earlier today.
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