what an educashun!

[Bruce Dykes]

-----Original Message-----
From: jester at PANIX.COM <jester at PANIX.COM>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: what an educashun!


>>
>> In the new movie, U-571, a marine colonel uses the phrase "lock and
load". I
>> vaguely remember a list discussion which put this in the Korean War (or
>> maybe Vietnam), but the archive search engine isn't being very
forthcoming
>> with the results I want.
>>
>> Is this an anachronism?
>
>You haven't told us when the movie is set, but if it's WWII the
>phrase is probably not an anachronism. The Historical Dictionary
>of American Slang has an example of _load and lock_ from WWII and
>several examples of _lock and load_ from the period immediately
>following the war, referring to it.


Ahhh...okay. The movie is somewhere between '42 and '44. I forget if they
gave a specific date...

bkd