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* Re: other shoe to dropbruce bowser
`* Re: other shoe to dropPeter Moylan
 `* Re: other shoe to dropKerr-Mudd, John
  `* Re: other shoe to dropKerr-Mudd, John
   `- Re: other shoe to dropbruce bowser

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Re: other shoe to drop

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 by: bruce bowser - Mon, 22 May 2023 19:44 UTC

On Monday, June 24, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Berna SLIKKER wrote:
> create a star <cas...@dpnet.net> wrote:
> >I've been trying for quite a while to find the origin of the
> >phrase, "waiting for the other shoe to drop." If anyone knows
> >please let me know.
> From the FAQ:
> Wait for the other shoe to drop
> This phrase means "to await an event causally linked to one that
> one has already observed". In the form "drop the other shoe",
> meaning "say the next obvious thing" or "end the suspense", it dates
> from the early 20th century. It derives from the following joke:
> A guest who checked into an inn one night was warned to be quiet
> because the guest in the room next to his was a light sleeper. As
> he undressed for bed, he dropped one shoe, which, sure enough,
> awakened the other guest. He managed to get the other shoe off in
> silence, and got into bed. An hour later, he heard a pounding on
> the wall and a shout: "When are you going to drop the other shoe?"
> Markus Laker reports that The Goon Show (a 1950s BBC Radio
> comedy) made reference to this. The character Eccles was an idiot
> and a bit of a freak.
> *CLONK*
> "What's that noise?"
> *CLONK*
> "Oh, that's just Eccles taking his boots off."
> *CLONK*

I remember reading that in some areas of the country, people didn't have foot wear.

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 by: Peter Moylan - Tue, 23 May 2023 01:31 UTC

In 1996 somebody asked

>>> I've been trying for quite a while to find the origin of the
>>> phrase, "waiting for the other shoe to drop." If anyone knows
>>> please let me know.

and is apparently still waiting for the second half of the answer.

In my student days I lived for one year in a place with very poor sound
insulation. The person above me almost always took off his second shoe
quietly. It was infuriating.

--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org

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 by: Kerr-Mudd, John - Tue, 23 May 2023 06:19 UTC

On Tue, 23 May 2023 11:31:49 +1000
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:

> In 1996 somebody asked
>
> >>> I've been trying for quite a while to find the origin of the
> >>> phrase, "waiting for the other shoe to drop." If anyone knows
> >>> please let me know.
>
> and is apparently still waiting for the second half of the answer.
>
> In my student days I lived for one year in a place with very poor sound
> insulation. The person above me almost always took off his second shoe
> quietly. It was infuriating.
>
Were you

https://www.idioms.online/waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop/
? --
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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 by: Kerr-Mudd, John - Tue, 23 May 2023 06:52 UTC

On Tue, 23 May 2023 07:19:01 +0100
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 May 2023 11:31:49 +1000
> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>
> > In 1996 somebody asked
> >
> > >>> I've been trying for quite a while to find the origin of the
> > >>> phrase, "waiting for the other shoe to drop." If anyone knows
> > >>> please let me know.
> >
> > and is apparently still waiting for the second half of the answer.
> >
> > In my student days I lived for one year in a place with very poor sound
> > insulation. The person above me almost always took off his second shoe
> > quietly. It was infuriating.
> >
> Were you
>
> https://www.idioms.online/waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop/
> ?

Ah I see I've been a bit slow here, sorry all, it's not a phrase I use.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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 by: bruce bowser - Wed, 24 May 2023 16:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 2:53:00 AM UTC-4, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2023 07:19:01 +0100
> "Kerr-Mudd, John" <ad...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 May 2023 11:31:49 +1000
> > Peter Moylan <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > In 1996 somebody asked
> > >
> > > >>> I've been trying for quite a while to find the origin of the
> > > >>> phrase, "waiting for the other shoe to drop." If anyone knows
> > > >>> please let me know.
> > >
> > > and is apparently still waiting for the second half of the answer.
> > >
> > > In my student days I lived for one year in a place with very poor sound
> > > insulation. The person above me almost always took off his second shoe
> > > quietly. It was infuriating.
> > >
> > Were you
> >
> > https://www.idioms.online/waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop/
> > ?
> Ah I see I've been a bit slow here, sorry all, it's not a phrase I use.

Did you instantly understand every joke you were ever told?

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