lid, meth, etc. (1966)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:40 PM -0500 12/20/04, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>  > >
>>  The Lovin' Spoonful's classic "Do You Believe In Magic", which as
>>  memory serves, was familiar to everyone (well, maybe not EVERYone)
>>  during the summer of 1965 and may have come out a few months before
>>  that, began as follows.  And yes, this was already understood as a
>>  metaphorical transfer by then.
>
>And is the first quote for the entry in HDAS.
>
>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED

Aha.  Nice to know that any mind-blowing incurred in those years
wasn't entirely irrevocable.  Maybe it was because I never got to
sample that notorious Cabrini...er, Chicago Green, and stuck to the
officially sanctioned product from Acapulco and Panama.

larry