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said by B  :Of course; I appreciate that you've shared this. (By the way, the only place I've ever heard the "Grandma suck eggs" thing was Ren and Stimpy and I've never understood what it means.) [...] One of the on-line dictionaries gives this:
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"teach your grandmother to suck eggs" (British & Australian)
- to give advice to someone about a subject that they already know more about than you. "You're teaching your grandmother to suck eggs, Ted. I've been playing this game since before you were born!"
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I can not find the origin. (You certainly get a lot of porn rubbish when you look it up in Google!)
My guess is that it may have something to do with Easter. Easter-eggs weren't always sugar and chocolate, they were real eggs! They still are in some parts of the world.
To make a real Easter-egg you have to get the gooey stuff out. The easiest way is to make a big enough hole in each end with a needle (not too big), stir the contents with the needle, then hold it high and suck on one end.
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Ronco Inside the Shell Egg Scrambler
Amazing ... it scrambles the egg right
inside the shell!
The Inside the Shell Electric Egg Scrambler from Ronco is one of the coolest products Ron Popeil ever invented. All you do is place an egg on the slanted needle, push through the shell, and then press down. The needle whips the egg into a perfectly smooth blend!
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Simple -- buy TWO from Uncle Ron, and turn one upside down to make the second hole.
Raking in the product placement kickbacks,
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said by richtig :To make a real Easter-egg you have to get the gooey stuff out. We hard boil 'em. Used Paas coloring and vinegar, crayons, the little wire egg basket to dip 'em in a big coffee cup.
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| But they go really smelly if you want to keep them for a few years!
...not eggs, but...
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli - George Bush (snr.)
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Hey, there's a bug in this editor. The first row of equals signs is inside the "small" brackets.
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