Strange, very strange expression

Posted by Christopher Hyatt on February 20, 2003

In Reply to: Strange, very strange expression posted by ESC on February 19, 2003

: : Hi, folks,

: : Could you please try to explain what "pick fly **** out of pepper" means?

: : Tks in advance for your help.

: A very tedious job?

needles and haystacks? very difficult, or - to quote the late Peter Cooke "bloody impossible!" (as in "teaching ravens to fly under water")