"hall of fame"

[Laurence Horn]

>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,

Oops.  Sorry for not checking the archives.

L

>  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