Dear List, Having been caught by the current flu I checked the Net for the latest thinking. Learned an interesting statistic regarding the 1918 epidemic. That one was called the Spanish Flu and there were 500,000 deaths. By comparison, the 1957-58 Asian flu took 70,000. The Center for Disease Control says we are overdue for the next Big Bad One. I put up a sneeze guard for the keyboard so I don't give your computers my virus. Groan. I've missed some of the interesting and fun topics this List is so good at. I'd like to see some input on curious expressions used by our SW VA grandparents. Here's one I have only heard in our family....so far. When a child asked what was in a box on a closet shelf, the answer was "Layovers to catch meddlers". "Drive on the cart" was another one. The story was that a family was struck with some bad luck and the children were hungry. A neighbor felt sorry for them and took a wagon load of corn to the house. He called to the notoriously lazy father that he had brought some corn. The father yelled back, "Is it shelled?" "No" "Well, then, just drive on the cart." Sue McN. Get me another box of tissues, honey.