On Aug 27, 3:38 pm, "THE BORG"
heaven.com> wrote:> Flash - the white tornado - cleans your kitchen in a flash like a white
> tornado.
> Use Flash to clean your kitchen.
> dirpppysorrousifyppppppgy (tornado sound effect and visuals).
> Flash. The white tornado.
> Cleans your kitchen in a flash.
> THE BORG
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>>> tornadoes occur in midwestern american states because of the lack of
>> trees
>> they were cut historically for firewood and housing
>> indian art does indicate swirly objects but they were celestial images
>> and sea shells
>> if there were tornadoes, there would have been swastika looking images
>> nothing like that occurs in any american indian art
>> except 1 tribe, which in fact had a swastika
>> but that was an episode of the cartoon incredible hulk
>> so that is not a credible source
>> so back to the spiral celestial images
>> they could be tornadoes
>> no, they can't be tornadoes because they were drawn on stones and cave
>> walls like popular cultural artifacts
>> people don't sensationalize disasters
>> i suspect they were depicting eddies of wind
>> litte midget tornadoes
>> must have been a popular topic for nature lovers
>> so when the indians migrated south
>> and the anglos began migrating west, they began to cut the trees for
>> firewood, housing
>> then the tornadoes began
>> then the wrath of quetzalcotl and hiawatha for not maintaining the
>> donated continent began to fury upon the anglo race
>> but then earth was mad at the south american-north american indian
>> league for not helping the anglos with their superior calumet pipe
>> bird dance shaman magic, so gaia and frigga began to hurl hurricanes
>> at south america,
>> pharoah and ra would have none of this, they sent jazz musicians to
>> blow their horns,
>> but because ra and pharoah were a little off in their calculations,
>> not enough jazz musicians were available
>> the open affront to gaia incensed her girthousnedss, and she launched
>> hurricanes at africa too
>
>> then buddha and zeuss, the fat man alliance, began the slow 5th round
>> of (pardon the pun)
>
>> battle of the climatology gods
A sledgehammer to crack a nut
Meaning
'Using a sledge-hammer to crack a nut' is using disproportionate force
or expense to overcome a minor problem.
Origin
Sledge-hammers are large iron hammers which were first used in England
in the 15th century. These weren't tools to hammer sledges - the
little ice trolleys with runners that the young Citizen Kane was so
fond of. 'Sledge' was the original name of that form of hammer; so
'sledgehammer' is something of a tautology. 'Sledging' has recently
reappeared as a verb form in the previously refined and gentle world
of cricket, where it means the browbeating and harassment of the
batsman by the fielders.
'Sledges' were an English invention but this phrase wasn't - it first
saw the light of day in 1850s America. 'A sledgehammer to crack a nut'
is one of the many versions of the phrase, the others having faded
into disuse. The spelling of 'sledgehammer' hasn't yet settled down
and is still making the usual progression of hyphenated words pairs,
i.e. from 'sledge hammer', to 'sledge-hammer' and eventually,
'sledgehammer'. The OED prefers the hyphen, but 'sledgehammer' is now
the more common spelling.
Pretty well anything which is small and easy to squash has come
verbally under the hammer; typified by nuts or insects. These have
included peanuts, walnuts or just nuts; also gnats, flies, mosquitoes
etc. The first to fall victim was the humble fly, as in this piece
from The Gettysburg Compiler, June 1878:
"Don't worry over little ills of life. It is like taking a sledge
hammer to kill a fly."
Nuts came into the picture a little later, specifically peanuts. For
example, this from The Reno Weekly Gazette And Stockman, May 1893:
"We know some men who are always looking for a sledge hammer to
crack a peanut."
Insects and nuts seem to have become combined in the later
'sledgehammer to kill a gnat' version. For example, Grosvenor B.
Clarkson's Industrial America in The World War, 1923:
"The Board never used a sledgehammer to kill a gnat."
Oddly, although the common form is now 'a sledgehammer to crack a
nut', the first examples of that in print date from as late the 1960s.
