Date:    Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:58:40 -0500
<br>From:    Gerald Cohen <gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UMR.EDU>
<br>Subject: Query: dipped and dyed
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<br>    A colleague today told me that an old lady he knows recently said: "I'm
<br>a Methodist dipped and dyed,"  the meaning being "I'm a Methodist through
<br>and through."  And he asked me just what "dipped and dyed" literally refers
<br>to.
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<br>    I'm not sure.  Can anyone help?  "Dyed" looks like "dyed-in-the-wool,"
<br>and I suppose that the wool could be dipped into the dye.  But this is just
<br>thinking out loud.  "Dipped" could be "baptized," but then "dyed" wouldn't
<br>make sense. Tallow candles are formed by being dipped, but are they dyed
<br>too?
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<br>    Has anyone else ever heard "dipped and dyed?"   Any help at all would
<br>be appreciated.
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<br>--Gerald Cohen
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<br>gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]umr.edu
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