Another SOTA?

[Alice Faber]

In non-acronymized form, it's a regular heading in Sports Illustrated.

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> I think maybe that Keith Olbermann was using the phrase when he was an
> anchorman on ESPN's Sports Center, or one of the news shows he has done
> since.
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>> On 6/9/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>>> What does 'SOTA' mean?
>>> Sign Of The Apocalypse.
>> Evidently popularized by fans of the show Mystery Science
>> Theater 3000. It was first used on the newsgroup
>> rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc on June 18, 1998.
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>> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc/msg/d4ff
>> 0417d77cc9be
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>> Subject: SOTA: Crawling From The Wreckage...
>> Date: 1998/06/18
>> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc
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>> Dark Horizons is reporting that Dennis Quaid is set to star
>> in "Eye of the Storm"...a remake of "The Crawling Eye."
>> [...]
>> Oh, BTW, SOTA stands for "Sign of the Apocalypse". About time
>> it got its own heading,no?
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>> --Ben Zimmer
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