Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Marc Velasco wrote:

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> if anyone's still tracking this...
> tonight on the simpsons, someone (moe?) told homer to _jack bauer_
> someone,
> ie, to interrogate/torture for information.
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>>>
>>> A sentence one of my fellow bartenders uttered last night while we
>>> were breaking down the bars, and packing up all the stuff to take
>>> back
>>> to the MIT Faculty club where it goes:
>>>
>>> "I think I can MacGyver the rest of the liquor onto the Queen
>>> Mary." ...
>>>
>>> ... But are there other television shows or television characters
>>> which
>>> have become verbs?
>>>
>>> ---

who is the source of the embedded "A sentence one of my fellow
bartenders ..." material that's quoted here?  i can't find it in the
archives.

arnold

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