If You Hail Mary, Will She Stop to Pick You Up? devilgate.org
@JohnPhilpin Thanks. I could, of course, have googled if myself, but I thought it was more fun to speculate.
@devilgate I found it an interesting piece .. i am not steeped in the genesis of the prayer .. so thought nothing of it .. and then you raised it .. which got me to thinking if it was yet another example of a perfectly good meaning being flipped on its head for no reason.