Name that fracas

David Bergdahl einstein at FROGNET.NET
Wed Nov 15 20:55:01 UTC 2000


It's Gatorade, the he-man drink... :-)

Laurence Horn wrote:

> >If it goes on as long as some suggest it might, then I vote for "chad
> >nauseam." Note that Slate's "best" is "Gator Wait," and they seem quite
> >pleased with themselves about it (they describe it as "a nice play on words
> >that takes a second to sink in"). Well maybe it needs to keep sinking, but
> it just doesn't work for me.
>
> I first took this to be a spooneresque pun on Waiter-gate, in the
> sense that we're all waiting and there is a semi-scandal involved,
> but then (after a manual recount) I determined that it's intended as
> a pun on "gator-bait".    I think.
>
> L

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