[Ads-l] ollier -- not in the OED

[George Thompson]

>From today's (Sunday) NYTimes' obituary of Keith Hufnagel, "Pro
Skateboarder and Entrepreneur":
“Huf is a powerful skater and known as one of the highest olliers in the
world,” Mr. Thiebaud told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2005, using the
skateboarding term for jumping with the board.

GAT
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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