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<div>At 5:26 PM -0500 11/7/00, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>George Thompson wrote:<br>
><br>
> HDAS (I happily follow the lead of Jesse Sheidlower in dropping
the<br>
> initials of the infamous publishing house formerly associated
with<br>
> this dictionary)<br>
<br>
Longterm ADS-L members, or those using the archives, will know that
I<br>
have always referred to the _Random House Historical Dictionary<br>
of American Slang_ as the HDAS. Also, Random House is still
associated</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>with it.<br>
</blockquote>
<div>Speaking of which, as soon as I got home I checked my trusty
copy of Volume II and found a nice antedate for that "Haul Off
and Kiss Me" song: </div>
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<div> "Then Lily hauls off and
gives me a big kiss." --Damon Runyan, in<i> Collier's,</i>
1930</div>
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<div>There's also (in addition to the predictable cases of hauling
off and slapping, taking a sock at, driving teeth in, etc.) a 1918
instance of someone hauling off and stretching the long tall bird on
the floor, a 1923 cite of someone who "throws up his job, hauls
off, and enlists", and even--from Zora Neale Hurston, the
foremother of "doodly-squat"--this lovely sentence from a
1942 piece in the<i> American Mercury</i>:</div>
<div> </div>
<div> "We hauled off and went to
church last Sunday."<i> </i></div>
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<div>As far as I know, none of these writers are Oregonians, so the
Pacific Northwest is still safe from non-violent haul-offs.</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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