The "soul patch"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
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On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:

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> Another term for it is "flavor saver," presumably due to the food
> that gets caught in it. There's a 1986 hit on Google Groups where the
> term refers to a beard and mustache together.
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> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.singles/msg/ba9c977e8b17d14c
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> The next hit there where it specifically refers to the tuft of hair
> beneath the lower lip (which is what I know it as)

Amen to that. I've never heard anybody refer to it by any name.

-Wilson Gray

> is 1996.
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> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.music.gdead/msg/
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> Grant Barrett
> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
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