Molly Ivins quotes

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Peter Farruggio wrote:

> CAN ANYBODY ANSWER THIS?
>
> The challenge for today: The Washington Post's obituary for Molly
> Ivins says, "In 1982, after she used a colorful colloquialism to
> describe a local chicken-killing festival, the Times and Ms. Ivins
> recognized it was time to part ways."
>
> What did she say?

discussed at:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004130.html#more

where the Dallas Morning News is quoted:

The grey lady and the red-headed one parted ways after Ms. Ivins
covered a New Mexico community chicken festival and wanted to refer
to it as "a gang pluck."
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we still haven't discovered what the name of her dog was.  the NYT
merely says, "her dog, whose name was an expletive".

arnold

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