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To: Rambi who wrote (4604)	4/25/2004 10:04:13 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51713

since everyone has had borborygmus, but most people haven't touched a caisson, I really think there is less excuse for not knowing borborygmus. B and I had a big dispute over providence- which turns out to be one of those words that B and I had probably both defined from context. I thought it meant luck- and B thought something else, which I don't remember- neither one of us knew it meant planning and foresight (or the planning and foresight of the almighty, as it might impact you). So when I would read a book and it said "I was saved by providence" I thought it meant "I was lucky." I shared that with my class, because I thought it was neat that here was this simple word, that both B and I had never bothered to look up. Unfortunately my class did not think it was a simple word- they thought it was merely a proper noun naming a place in RI (or "somewhere in the colonies")- they had no idea that it meant anything, which kind of took the wind our of my sails.