Subject:Re: The Big Deal (was Re: No Time to Read) From:Elizabeth J Allen <eja -at- samurai -dot- com> To:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:35:33 -0400
Actually, it also refers to reaching into the bag during a "fight"
and pulling out old issues to throw into the fray.
I think Richard/Tony/Anthony was trying to imply that Dan and Connie
were throwing out old issues, irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
Elizabeth
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On 13-Aug-07, at 1:24 PM, Bill Swallow wrote:
> Gunny Sacking is akin to bottling up your anger. You take all the
> negativity you experience and tuck it away (in a gunny sack, like what
> Johnny B Goode kept his guitar in) and over time it loads you down.
>
> This is why I didn't understand what Richard meant by saying Dan and
> Connie were "gunny sacking".
>
> On 8/13/07, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
>> Ok, no fair, the repeated knowing references to "gunny sacking"
>> are driving me mad, and not so slowly either. And for once Google
>> is not helping.
>>
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