p.s. Re: heaveno/heaven-o

[Gregory {Greg} Downing]

At 11:50 PM 10/18/2000 +0200, Grant Barrett <gbarrett at monickels.com> wrote:
>Heaven-o has a history with ADS. From our Words of the Year,
>1997:
>
>"Most Unnecessary: "heaven-o" (28 votes) replacement for the
>greeting hello approved by the city council in Kingsville, Texas."
>

Sorry! I must have missed or forgotten about the treeware mention. I did
check before posting and "heaven(-)o" does not appear in either half of the
currently bifurcated ASD-L archives.

Apparently it hasn't made huge headway in three years. It was recently
mentioned as a novelty on another list.



Greg Downing, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu