NL888  +  469626 Mon, 28 Jan 08 06:36 AM 1) draw-tank =? 2) Bingo ball  =? Context: When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank. NL888 Joined on Fri, Oct 5 2007 Full Member 374 High mind turns the grace of the universe as the glory of your life.

	Mister Micawber  +  469629 Mon, 28 Jan 08 06:45 AM No idea.  Are we talking about the game of chance called BINGO? Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,760 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

	Avangi  +  469634 Mon, 28 Jan 08 06:48 AM Bingo balls are like Lotto balls.  They're like ping-pong balls with numbers on them.  A ball gets picked somehow and that becomes the winning number, or the number that is called out in Bingo. Before the winning ball gets picked, all the eligible balls are in some kind of container which can be rotated to make sure the balls are mixed.  When a ball gets picked we say it is "drawn," in the manner of drawing a card from a shuffled deck of cards.  Hence "draw-tank." I expect the allusion is comparing the future of a child to the game of chance.  "His cards have not yet been drawn." Avangi Joined on Mon, Nov 19 2007 Veteran Member 8,171 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier