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Joan Houston Hall jdhall at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU
Thu Aug 15 17:39:48 UTC 2002


The peanut gallery (the top balcony of a theater) goes back at least to 1876.

At 01:16 PM 8/15/02 -0400, you wrote:
>At 5:47 AM -0700 8/15/02, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:
>>Ben
>>
>>[1] I'm too young to know if this is an apt term -- I only know the phrase
>>     from the request "No comments from the peanut gallery".
>
>And as for antedates, does anyone know if Howdy Doody actually
>initiated the peanut gallery (that was definitely my first exposure
>to the term and concept) or whether it was around before that?
>
>larry



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