lipstick on a pig

Scot LaFaive slafaive at GMAIL.COM
Thu Sep 11 17:24:26 UTC 2008


>I don't believe you, Scot. I think that you meant to post: "... to catch
you on their show."
Au contraire, mon frère. I did actually mean to use "there." Does that use
of "there" seem unusual to you? We do talk funny up here in WI sometimes.

Scot

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I don't believe you, Scot. I think that you meant to post:
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> "... to catch you on their show."
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> -Wilson
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>to catch you on their
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> > Of course I meant "there."
> > --"This is the most public yet of my many humilations."
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> > Scot
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> > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >>  I sat through 20 minutes of gibberish to catch you on their, Grant. Of
> >> all the worthwhile things to talk about with lexicography, it's a shame
> most
> >> people only care about it with such silly "issues."
> >>
> >> Scot
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> >>   On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Grant Barrett <
> >> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
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> >>> It looks like Google's new newspaper initiative is paying off already.
> >>>
> >>> Here's a 198o use that, while it doesn't mention lipstick, is entirely
> >>> in line with the other variants: "dressing up a pig/hog," "putting
> >>> makeup on a pig/ hog", "perfume on a pig/hog," etc.
> >>>
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/piglipstick
> >>>
> >>> 1980 Quad-City Herald (Brewster, Wash.) (Jan. 31) "The Country Parson"
> >>> p. 3: You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's [sic] tail, spray
> >>> it with perfume, but it is still a pig.
> >>>
> >>> By the way, I'm scheduled to speak about this on Fox News today at
> >>> 1:30 PM EDT, so thanks for the tips about this term so far (including
> >>> older stuff from Barry Popik in the archives).
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> >>> Grant Barrett
> >>> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
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