Hell, Heaven or Hoboken (1918)... ; galiant effort; and others

[Mark A. Mandel]

In today's ADS-L digest, 21 Jun 2005 to 22 Jun 2005 (#2005-174)...

Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>>>

Whoever first said it, "Heaven..." was indeed a familiar quotation in
1918-19.  While researching AEF slang many years ago, I came across it
frequently.

JL

<<<
followed by a full quote of Barry's post, 840 lines on my screen.



And Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU> wrote:
>>>

Most of these examples indicate a variant pronunciation of 'gallant'. What
        [12 more lines of interesting contribution

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followed by a 200-line quote of Paul Frank's post.



Some days the digest brings quotes nested six and seven levels deep, with
lines beginning like this:

>>>>>>>

Yesterday was pretty mild in that respect, but we did have a section like
this:

> >>photo caption refers to them as "Brangelina".

-- which is a different problem entirely from the whole long section like
this:

<blockquote type="cite">
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> > </span>--------
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> ></span>
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> > </span>Wilson, was this in common
use in the army in the
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>'50s?  Could you
  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> > </span>provide a




Hey, folks, if it's already been said, do we need to say it five times more?
(Rhetorical question. Answer in deeds, not words, if you please. Definitely
not in more words.)

-- Mark A. Mandel
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