The Real Question Is: Why Is A Two Tailed Dog Happy?
Boyfriend: So, do you think anybody ever actually threw out the baby with the bath water?
Girlfriend: Yup.
Boyfriend: Really? I mean, how could you throw out a baby with bath water?
Girlfriend: I don’t know. Maybe by accident. You know, back in the old days people gave baths to all their kids using the same water. They didn’t throw out the water between baths, and the baby was last. That’s where the expression comes from, y’know.
Boyfriend: But you seriously think that someone threw out a baby with the bath water? I don’t.
Girlfriend: You don’t think that through the entire history of mankind no one — not one person — threw out the baby with bathwater? Even accidentally?
Boyfriend: Hmmm… I don’t know. How much do you think those tubs weighed, anyway. I mean, they had to be pretty heavy, right?
Girlfriend: I suppose, but it had to happen. How else would they come up with the expression?
Boyfriend: Well, you know the expression ‘Happy as a two-tailed dog?” Well, you don’t need to see a two-tailed dog in order to come up with the expression.
Girlfriend: Well, I’m just saying. Things were different back then. We don’t take baths like that anymore.
Light rail heading south, near Lake Street station.
Overheard by J-boy.
