[Ads-l] Throwing money at X

[Gail Stygall]

I'll check it out. In the more recent political arena, I have it associated with conservatives tagging liberal programs as "throwing money at X problem" rather than stripping, but I realize that it the origin still could be primarily associated with stripping. Thanks.
Gail
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On Mon, 16 May 2016, Benjamin Torbert wrote:

> I'm sure I don't know, but that World According to Carp (sic) cartoon was
> making fun of liberals using the phrase as early as the 1980s. A guy had a
> flat tire and was tossing bills at it. The caption made it explicit. The
> collection is in a book that might be in my 77yo father's basement.
> On May 16, 2016 1:45 PM, "Gail Stygall" <stygall at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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>> I have been observing a debate in a political arena in which a number of
>> women are claiming that the street theater Billionaires for Bush act
>> of throwing money cannot be used in the context of a women candidate.
>> Specifically, several women on a political blog are saying that
>> throwing dollars at people arriving at the George Clooney fundraiser for
>> Hillary Clinton was doubly insulting because the expression
>> had a primary association with throwing money at strippers. That wouldn't
>> have been my first thought but I really don't know the origin
>> of "throwing money at X." Anyone here know the origins of the terms? Any
>> leads will be much appreciated.
>> Gail Stygall
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