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   From: spring@fever.ca   
      
   On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:12:32 +0100, "Sid Boggle"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Surely, your thinking of 'trawling'?   
      
   No. "Trolling" is and always has been the name of a method of fishing   
   whereby you run a fishing line behind a slow moving boat, with or   
   without bait.   
      
      
   >   
   >"Vince"  wrote in message   
   >news:M9i3d.35739$hZ3.10701@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...   
   >> "Brian Doyle" wrote   
   >> > Vince wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> > > But isn't "feed the troll" a mixed metaphor?   
   >> >   
   >> > Out of curiosity, why? Trolls need to eat just like other monsters. So   
   >not   
   >> > to feed one is a very direct metaphor.   
   >>   
   >> I believe that 'Trolling' is taking from a fishing term.   
   >>   
   >> So the 'troll' is throwing out some bait hoping that somebody bites.   
   >>   
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