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sgt.null wrote: throwing out the baby with the bathwater anyone?
Actually I've always wondered about that one. Baby's good and bathwater's dirty/bad or something? So don't go with the whole idea as being good at the expense of the bad part? One of my
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back in the day, long ago when people took only two baths a year or so. start with father - all male children, then mother and all female children. water was not changed - by the time baby got a bath - water was so dirty had to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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Where did THAT expression come from?

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dutch oven?
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