I will be attending Mayberry in Westminster in a couple of weeks.I would be 
very pleasedin meeting some of the digest members who also plan to attend.If 
any of you care to do thesame,contact me via e-mail and put the word "Mayberry" 
in the subject line and we willfind a way to meet. Dewey in NC The expression 
"getting someone's goat" is based on the custom of keeping a goat in thestable 
with a racehorse as the horse's companion.The goat becomes a settling 
influencefor the Thoroughbred.If you owned a competing horse and were not above 
some dirtybusiness,you could steal your rival's goat (it's been done) to upset 
the other horse and makeit run a poor race. Thank goodness those goats were 
not" loaded "as our dear 'ol Jimmy was.                                    
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