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[Laurence Horn]

At 5:47 AM -0700 8/15/02, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:
>Ben
>
>[1] I'm too young to know if this is an apt term -- I only know the phrase
>     from the request "No comments from the peanut gallery".

And as for antedates, does anyone know if Howdy Doody actually
initiated the peanut gallery (that was definitely my first exposure
to the term and concept) or whether it was around before that?

larry