Upon seeing or hearing my username, some people assume I got it from the christian bible & others assume I got it from Heinlein. I made it up before I read either. I sometimes say "like a cat on a hot tin roof" & some people assume I got it from Tennessee Williams. I got it from relatives who were saying it before he was born. <>
Unless smudged glasses make you read it that way, which is what I did, and why I'm laughing my ass off right now.
/// Of course, that was long before I knew the term username. I considered Stranger In A Strange Land & Alien In An Alien Land & 2 combinations of those. I preferred Alien In An Alien Land but decided that is too alien for the vast majority of humans. <>
What luck! I'm colorblind, so I'll just take all of them. And check back in the morning, as usual. Yes, Doctor. I might be drawn by white horses, or I might be riding a mighty dinosaur, depending upon what the pills are.
I was going to add that. He probably picked up a lot of them in the streets. He was just one of the first to write them down. The actual origins probably go back to some guy chasing a mammoth with a flint-tipped spear.