CP Time
Dave Hause
dwhause at JOBE.NET
Sun Nov 7 00:49:33 UTC 2004
One more, from the medical side is MAFAT, Mandatory Anesthesia Fuck Around
Time, spoken only by the other members of the operatory team.
Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Sheidlower" <jester at PANIX.COM>
DARE has "Jewish time" from 1952. And HDAS has "C.P.T." from
Carl van Vechten's _Nigger Heaven_ from 1926.
I hear new variants of this constantly--"[some ethnic, racial,
religious etc. group] time" = 'late'.
Jesse Sheidlower
OED
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