Mad Dogs & Englishman & The Queen of Terre Haute

[Mark Odegard]

Barry writes:
>    A check of TIMOTHY McVEIGH and SLANG/PHRASE doesn't seem to turn up
>much.
>    "Mad dog killer" came up.  OED has "mad dog," but not "killer."
>RHHDAS?
>    One poster on a newsgroup insists that the term came from the military.

The media circus has sacralized McVeigh's death, trivializing the deaths of
those he killed, reducing them to an early scene of a multi-volumed Wagner
opera.

I was sorta hoping someone would remember Cole Porter's "Queen of Terre
Haute", from _Fifty Million Frenchmen_ (Peggy Cass did it a couple of times
on TV), and suitably satirize. Noel Coward of course did "Only Mad Dogs and
Englishmen Go out Into the Midday Sun".

To join the dead Elvis industry, the dead Kennedys industry, the dead
Marilyn, Diana, and Dale Earnhardt industries, we now have the dead McVeigh
industry. No doubt we'll be able to buy holy pictures of him done on black
velvet, advertised on late-night cable TV.

I suspect 'McVeigh' will enter the vocabulary.
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