"hall of fame"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:02:51 -0400, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
wrote:

>At 10:13 AM -0500 8/2/05, Mullins, Bill wrote:
>>  "hall of shame" (Not in OED)
>
>...and then there's "walk of shame".  Any early cites, presumably
>from campus-based novels or Connie Eble's or Pam Munro's college
>slang material?

Last time we covered this, I found examples relating to expulsion from
military school back to 1980:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0502D&L=ADS-L&P=R105

I only found the sexual sense back to 1991, which doesn't predate Connie
Eble's 1990 attestation (or my own memory of the term from the late '80s).

Hmmm, _Slang and Sociability_ used to be searchable on Google Print, but
the link no longer works:

http://print.google.com/print?q=slang-and-sociability

I hope that's merely a glitch and not a portent of publishers removing
titles from Google Print. In any case, it's still searchable on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0807845841/


--Ben Zimmer