spun-doctored

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:49 PM -0700 8/17/03, David Colburn wrote:
>  >
>>  NY Times reported today that Jesse Ventura has this advice for
>>  Schwarzenegger:  "Don't be spun doctored and stay away from the Republican
>Party, who will
>>  try to make you something you're not."
>>
>>  I love this word!
>>
>This reminds me of a past tense I heard used by a caller on a radio show in
>San Francisco last year: "So he was the only person who didn't lip-sync
>during his appearance? Wow -- I didn't know that everyone else lip-sunk."
>
>(I forget what the broader context was, but I liked "lip-sunk" so much that
>I jotted that sentence down.)
>
>-David Colburn

"Lip-sunk" is indeed nice.  (I still like the reference I came across
once to someone "lip-singing", which I guess would make the past
tense "lip(ped)-sang".)

For me, the double past inflection on "spun-doctored" is more
reminiscent of the frequently encountered "slept-walked" (as preterit
of "sleep-walk").

Larry