Mother's Day(1874); Litigation Lotto(1992); Permission Marketing(1997)

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LITIGATION LOTTO

Here in Gotham, there's no question that such lawsuits have earned their nickname, "litigation lotto."   When it comes to suing the city, well . . . "Hey, you never know."
--NEW YORK POST (www.nypost.com), 11 May 2003, lead editorial

   Political arguments would be nothing without jargon.  The NEW YORK POST has used "litigation lotto" in editorials before, but didn't coin it.


(GOOGLE GROUPS)
From: Steve Johnson (johnson at trwacs.UUCP)
Subject: Re: Dutch crackers arrested
Newsgroups: alt.security
Date: 1992-02-07 05:06:12 PST

morgan at ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
** Stuff Deleted **
>       ....   Many computer users do NOT want to accept
>responsibility for their actions. ....

Change "computer users" to "individuals" and you have one of the major reasons
for the problems facing the US today.  This group is just an indicator of the
world at large where it's always someone elses fault and "litigation lotto"
has become one of our more popular pasttimes.


(FACTIVA database)
Review-Journal
4 December 1994
The Las Vegas Review-Journal
3c
The management at McDonald's doesn't set out to burn customers To the editor:

Ah, lawyers. Sometimes they make sarcastic letters to the editor so darn easy.
(...)
To pay this award, a little money is going to come from each of the company's shareholders, coffee buyers and other customers. So we all get to pay a little bit of Mrs. Liebeck's Litigation Lotto jackpot (and, more importantly, the lawyer fees).

A refusal to play lotto with litigation abuse
SUSAN VOGEL
San Francisco-based writer and attorney.
953 words
24 May 1996
San Francisco Examiner
SECOND
A-23
(...)
Litigation lotto is becoming the way of life in America. I have joked with friends that in other countries when a child trips on a sidewalk, the father chastises him - and in the United States, the father congratulates him for providing a lawsuit to fund his college education.

LET'S PLAY LITIGATION LOTTO
11 March 1999
New York Post
32


(PROQUEST DIRECT)
  Commentary; New Taxation Through Legal Representation; States scrambling to make up budget shortfalls are playing litigation lotto.; [HOME EDITION]; JONATHAN TURLEY; The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.; Oct 7, 2002; pg. B.11

  New U.S. tort litigation: To go warily where no one has gone before; Richard L Antognini; Defense Counsel Journal, Chicago; Oct 2000; Vol. 67, Iss. 4; pg. 454, 8 pgs

  Litigation lotto; Sheila R Cherry; Insight on the News, Washington; Apr 3-Apr 10, 2000; Vol. 16, Iss. 13; pg. 10, 5 pgs

  Fix car design before lawsuit; [ALL Edition]; R. David Pittle; Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass.; Dec 13, 1999; pg. 9

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PERMISSION MARKETING

   From the NEW YORK SUN, 8 May 2003, pg. 9, col. 2:

   Today is Purple Cow Day--as marked by the release of "Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable."
   The Bovine offering is the newest book by marketing maverick Seth Godin.  Well-known for coining the phrase "permission marketing" and teaching readers about "unleashing the ideavirus," Mr. Godin's latest effort is perhaps the closest he's come yet to demonstrating how to use brains rather than dollar to make your products and companies as "remarkable" as Mr. Godin himself.

   The WORD SPY has "permission marketing" from 1999, the year of Godin's book.  This was before WORD SPY began giving first citations.  Godin's 1997 article (below) came before the book...I imagine that Godin credits Gellett Burgess for "purple cow," but I haven't read the new book.


(WORLDCAT)
Permission marketing :
turning strangers into friends, and friends into customers /
Author: Godin, Seth.
Publication: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1999
Document: English : Book

(PROQUEST DIRECT)
  Permission key to successful marketing; Seth Godin; Advertising Age, Chicago; Nov 10, 1997; Vol. 68, Iss. 45; Midwest region edition; pg. S31, 1 pgs

  Getting Permission; Perlstein, Robert; Zip Target Marketing, Philadelphia; Jul 1986; Vol. 9, Iss. 7; pg. 36, 1 pgs

  Marketizing Power; Perlstein, Robert; Zip Target Marketing, Philadelphia; Jun 1986; Vol. 9, Iss. 6; pg. 24, 1 pgs

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MOTHER'S DAY

   The revised OED has "Mother's Day" from 1890.  That's what I'd posted here in 1998, using the tools that I had at the time.  It beat 1908, when "Mother's Day" was officially recognized.
   The first three "hits" here are not important.


(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
  ANNIVERSARY OF MOTHER'S DAY.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jun 3, 1876; pg. 10, 1 pgs

  FAMILY DROWNED IN THE HUDSON.; FATAL ENDING TO A MIDNIGHT RIDE ON THE ICE. ; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jan 14, 1876; pg. 1, 1 pgs

  CITY AND SUBURBAN NEWS.; NEW-YORK.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jun 3, 1875; pg. 12, 1 pgs

  A CALIFORNIA STORY.; THE OPPORTUNE REMITTANCE. A FEW DAYS' EXPERIENCE OF A CALIFORNIA MINER IN THE EARLY TIME. ; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Dec 27, 1874; pg. 9, 1 pgs

  THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF "MOTHER'S DAY."; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jun 3, 1874; pg. 8, 1 pgs
("'Mother's Day,' a women's peace festival, originated about four years ago by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, was celebrated last evening at Plimpton Hall, under the auspices of the Women's Social Educational Society.")

  FROM CENTRAL KENTUCKY.; Affairs at Bowling Green Reports of Morgan's Movements The Paroled Prisoners Captured at Gallatin The Case of Col.Turchin, &c.; From Our Own Correspondent.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Aug 22, 1862; pg. 2, 1 pgs

  AFFAIRS IS THE EAST.; The Troubles of Mr. Alcock-- The French in China-- The Famine in India-- A Medal from President Buchanan-- Life Charts-- A Day in the Jungle. Correspondence of the New-York Times.; New York Times (1857-Current file), New York, N.Y.; Jun 7, 1861; pg. 2, 1 pgs

  A TRIP DOWN EAST.--NO. VI.; Roads and Road Taxes-The Slide-The Gulf The Jail-Screw-Auger Falls-Steam War-Horses-Homeward Bound. ON BOARD THE SEA-GOING STEAMER ; New York Daily Times (1851-1857), New York, N.Y.; Aug 6, 1852; pg. 1, 1 pgs

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MISC.

CELEBRITY MOMS--I don't know if there's a word for celebrity moms who must be photographed all throughout pregnancy, and then show off how great they look after giving birth.  I'm talking about Demi Moore and now Sarah Jessica Parker.  Today's NEW YORK POST has an article about the trend, but didn't come up with a buzzword.

OT MISC.:  The phone lines in my apartment building are/will be out for three days.  I'm sending this from Columbia...I'm sitting next to a printer where I put up the sign "OUT OF ORDER" and no one here can read...I got word a few days ago that my cooking tour to Sicily was cancelled and I'm seeing about what to do with my nonrefundable airline tickets.  Maybe I'll go anyway.

OT AOL:  AOL really sucks. You can't sign on to AOL without first downloading its Broadband advertisement, and here are Columbia, that can take minutes...I've pressed SEND on this several times, and nothing happens.