Date:  Fri, 28 Oct 1994 13:21:02 -0400

From:  Allan Denchfield <dench[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CAMBRIDGE.VILLAGE.COM>

Subject: Re: born in a barn



On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, Joan Livingston-Webber wrote:



> In my childhood home, "born in a barn" referred exclusively

> to someone who didn't close an outside door behind them.



If'n I had'na ever heard the explanation following use of this expression,

I could have easily associated it (confused it) with the Christmas story

and interpreted it to mean, "you think you're so high and mighty" or "do

you think you're so special", or, "who do you think you are - God?"



-AOBD (who may have closed far too many doors behind me)