Surf-and-Skate; Crabgrass; Movie Quotations; Pooparazzi
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Sun Apr 8 16:22:39 UTC 2001
SURF-AND-SKATE
An article about clothing in the INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY, 9 April 2001, pg. A14, col. 4, uses the term "surf and skate." Pacific Sunwear's chief financial officer said, "We're not mixing any surf-and-skate brands in there."
A quick check shows this is used much more often than "skate and surf."
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CRABGRASS
A quotation in last Friday's NEW YORK TIMES was: "I'm like crabgrass. They can't get rid of me."
I don't know if Fred Shapiro has any "crabgrass."
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MOVIE QUOTATIONS
CASSELL'S MOVIE QUOTATIONS, by Nigel Rees, has 13 quotations from SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959), but "don't call us, we'll call you" is _not_ one of them. One imagines, for a book like this, that Rees read the actual script. I think I do remember the quotation in the movie, though. Maybe Rees just failed to record it?
A HAMMETT bio on PBS last week showed THE GLASS KEY, which used the phrase "stick it in your ear." The movie is not in this book.
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POOPARAZZI
From WIRED, "Jargon Watch" by Gareth Branwyn, May 2001, pg. 76:
_Pooparazzi_
Nickname for a pill-sized video camera that takes pictures of a patient's gastrointestinal system.
Shouldn't that be "pooparazzo"?
This beats out the fast-rising "webeo"?
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