Brown Motion

Perhaps I have dwelled on this idea before but hey age is a wonderful thing - you can pretend its the first time each time and you get a hall pass. As curious expressions go this one is out there - including 'out there' but lets focus on - 'Pass Out'. In India it meant you graduated from one stage of your meaningless life into another (like from school to college) except you did not have the intelligence to know what was coming was more of the same. In the western world typically it has come to signify a state close to or equal to comatose.  Comatose is not the fifty first state (to clarify for some half wit that may get confused) but its where most drivers on the highways are as an example. Then there is the expression used at gatherings of all kinds where items or food or beverages have to be distributed in somewhat organized fashion. Then there is the most critical of them all - as in when I swallowed a goat bone (I love goat meat) unbeknownst to me - unt...