Dh was wondering tonight about a phrase used at work...

[Ellie]

by his Indian fellow workers. They commonly say, "Do the needful thing." We were wondering tonight where that came from; turns out, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English), that it's a left-over from the days when India was a colony of England.

So as he did a little more googling on the phrase, he came up with this site (http://www.jeremygilby.com/?p=1043). Note: We did not read the rest of the site, and cannot vouch for the family friendliness thereof. Just read this.

Dh also found a site that sells t-shirts and men's briefs with "The Needful Thing" printed on them.

We laughed until we cried.:lol:

[Susie in CA]

Funny! That made me think of the book 'Needful Things' by Steven Kings.

Susie

[Ellie]

Funny! That made me think of the book 'Needful Things' by Steven Kings.

Susie

See, and I had never heard of that book until tonight, when I went searching for the Wikipedia article dh told me about. Wikipedia has quite a long article about the book, and movies which reference it, and even other books which do.

Guess I'm gonna have to go read it myself:D