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hell in a hand basketHere you are bloggers! Courtesy of Gerry. Also my thanks to James McCann (www.jamesmccann.info/) a fellow author who thoughtfully sent me the Wikipedia link as did my brother Ben, who last week became the proud father of a beautiful baby girl. Congratulations to my brother Ben, my sister-in-law Joline and little Sam, the sweetest nephew an aunt could have. Baby Claire, welcome to the world! To hell in a handbasket From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search There are similar phrases going back over 400 years, such as to “Heaven in a wheelbarrow”. There has been some speculation that the phrases may be related, with “to Hell in a handbasket” perhaps being a mocking reference to the Guillotine which often used a lined basket to catch the severed head. It appeared in published works since the 1940s. “Hell in a Handbasket” was the title of a 1998 Star Trek comic book. Hell in a Handbasket is the title of a 2006 book (ISBN 1585424587) by American counterculture cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, who authors a nationally syndicated cartoon strip This Modern World. “Hell in a handbasket” was the name of an undescribed con requiring a trained cat referenced in the 2004 film, Ocean’s Twelve. Often heard quoted in the midwest circa 1940s, according to Rieta Collins Posted by Meg Tilly on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 in Chewing the Fat |