Wrong; "Street Sweeper" slang irony

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WRONG

In a message dated 3/2/2004 10:19:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
vidamorkunas at TELUS.NET writes:


> In Vancouver BC, I often hear 'that's just WRONG' as a common phrase to
> express surprise or irony.
>
> I wonder whether some of these common expressions originate from hit movies
> or TV shows

   At least once a week (4 programs), DAILY SHOW host Jon Stewart will look
at a ridiculous news story  (the Janet Jackson breast incident, for example)
and tell the audience: "That's just wrong."

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STREET SWEEPER

   From the NEW YORK SUN, 2 March 2004, letters, pg. 9, col. 4:

   With regard to Errol Louis's column on cab-driver safety, there has not
been a rash of livery muggings ("The Outer-Borough Taxi Crisis," Opinion,
February 17, 2004).
   The incidents that Mr. Louis described were all perpetrated against
drivers who were doing street hails, or as we refer to them, "street sweepers."  The
drivers who strictly adhere to the law and perform only radio-dispatched
calls are never the target of these incidents.
(...)
   Eugene Pero
President, Livery Owners Coalition of New York

   What's sadly ironic here is that drivers who do street hails are called
"street sweepers," and they experience violence from guns that are also known as
"street sweepers."
   "Street sweeper" is not in the CASSELL DICTIONARY OF SLANG, in any
definition.

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