"Clam" (slang term for Scientologist)
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue May 11 17:56:02 UTC 1999
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Barry A. Popik wrote:
> Someone wrote that the shooters were "clams" (Scientologists). There
> were 1400 hits for "clam"/"Scientologist" on the Usenet database. Why no
> entry in the RHHDAS? How old is the term? Is it because its members are
> secretive?
Does this mean that Scientologists were called "clams" 1400 times, or
that the role of clams in Scientologist mythology was mentioned 1400
times?
Fred R. Shapiro Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
and Lecturer in Legal Research ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
Yale Law School Oxford University Press, 1998
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu ISBN 0-19-509547-2
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