to "spit-shine"

[James Smith]

Furniture polish gives the fastest and easiest,
although not long lasting (it crazes), spit shine.


--- Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:

> I'd date my learning the skill to c. 1975.
>
> ---Amy West
>
> >Date:    Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:10:38 -0800
> >From:    Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> >Subject: Re: to "spit-shine"
> >
> >By the time Amy learned it, the prescription for a
> "spit shine" no
> >longer involved spit.  That supports the notion
> that _brilliance_ is
> >now the defining characteristic of a (so-called)
> "spit shine."
> >
> >   JL
>
>
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James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
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