slang "Scotch!" (= great!)

[A. Maberry]

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Gerald Cohen wrote:

I have never seen it before but my guess is, given the fuller context
below, that it is an elipsis for something like: "... and a stretch
limousine was waiting. [Wow!] A stretch limo! [and] Scotch!" etc.

Just a guess.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


>    The _NY Times_, May 15, 1999, Sec. A, p.27, col. 2 (part of a col. 1-6
> article entitled "How I Kicked The Talk-Show-Guest Habit", by Debbie
> Nathan) contains a slang item "Scotch" I had never encountered:
>
>      "A stretch limo! Scotch!"
>
>       Has anyone seen this  use of "Scotch" before?  Does anyone have any
> idea about its origin?
>
> ******** Here is a bit more of the context in which it appears:
>
>      "...Soon I got an invitation from Sally Jesse Raphael's people.  They
> said audiences would appreciate my rational perspective.
>
>    "I should have known better, but I was flattered.  Me, on national TV!
> Plus,  I  lived in the boonies, and Sally offered a free trip to the East
> Coast.  I got there and a stretch limousine was waiting.  A stretch limo!
> Scotch!"
>
> -------Gerald Cohen
>
>
>
> gcohen at umr.edu
>