I really screwed the pooch on this one (what does that really mean?!). I went to delete the moderator social group and accidentally checked the wrong box.
I apologize for my gross negligence (I blame it on lack of sleep!) and encourage you to bother one of our fine moderators about setting up a new group if anyone wishes to do that.
“Screwed the pooch,” meaning “made a terrible mistake,” is a
cleaned-up paraphrase that author Tom Wolfe popularized. Wolfe’s book
“The Right Stuff,” which dealt with the early years of America’s
manned space program, used the phrase “screwed the pooch” in
describing a calamitous error made by Mercury Astronaut Gus Grissom:
The original military term (with an asterisk which I’ve substituted
for a vowel) was “f*cked the dog,” which generally referred to
military men goofing off on the job, rather than to catastrophic
errors.
“Screwed the pooch,” meaning “made a terrible mistake,” is a
cleaned-up paraphrase that author Tom Wolfe popularized. Wolfe’s book
“The Right Stuff,” which dealt with the early years of America’s
manned space program, used the phrase “screwed the pooch” in
describing a calamitous error made by Mercury Astronaut Gus Grissom:
The original military term (with an asterisk which I’ve substituted
for a vowel) was “f*cked the dog,” which generally referred to
military men goofing off on the job, rather than to catastrophic
errors.
Wow that’s some analysis.
Get Firefox with the Lazarus plugin, saves all your work and backs it up in cases like those. It has saved my hide more than once