Re: [NTLK] [OT] Hell has frozen over

From: Jeffrey M.Swiger (N8NOE_at_Comcast.Net)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 18:17:18 PDT


You All Know there is a HELL Michigan, Right....
And there is a Lake Hell there also?......
YES, Hell Does Freeze Over!.....
It's Close to Ann Arbor....
I just moved to Texas, But I'm from that area......
Jeffrey M. Swiger
** N8NOE **
6909 N.E. Loop 820
Apt#: 217
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
N8NOE_at_SBCGlobal.Net

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 08:05 PM, Bruce E. Durocher II wrote:

> A similar frequently used phrase is "When Pigs fly." And
> there is another, more vulgar one involving monkeys, but I think I'll
> quit before I get in trouble...
>
>> "Till Hell freezes over" is an euphemism for the almost zero
>> likelihood of some event occurring.
>>
>>
>> On October 18 2003, <newton_at_92508, newton_at_92508.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not understood what 'Hell froze over' means because I am not
>>> famillar with English.
>>> Would someone help me understand what that means?
>>>
>>> 'read between the lines' comes under this situation?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>
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