On Tuesday, July 3, 2001 at 4:05:09 PM UTC-3, wall...@kmsi.net wrote:   
   > In Laura Smith's "My Bonny" (a marvelous, powerful song, BTW) is the line   
   > "I've got a tramp's whisker that tells me you still care."   
   >    
   > It's driving me nuts!  I could swear I've come across the term "tramp's   
   > whisker" somewhere before, but I can't think where.  Ideas, anyone?   
   > Please?   
   >    
   > /kenw   
   >    
   > Ken Wallewein   
   > Calgary, Alberta   
   > kenw@kmsi.net   
      
   I prefer "tramp's whisper."  The poetic possibilities are enormous, including   
   a lonely heart carrying the heavy weight of broken love who  encounters one   
   suffering even more than she.  When our lonely heart bends to deposit a coin   
   in the cup of the tramp,   
    or whatever scenario we choose, he looks up to catch her eye, at which point   
   she hears his whisper inside her head and she knows that 'he still cares.'   
   don't ya just love poetry!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)