dope

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:57 PM -0500 3/8/05, sagehen wrote:
>  >At 11:07 AM -0500 3/8/05, sagehen wrote:
>>>Jonathan Lighter writes:
>>>
>>>What could be more passe' sounding than "pot" and "weed"?  Oh, I know !
>>>"Grass."
>>>
>>>JL
>>>~~~~~~~~~~
>>>I'm wondering if even more passe than "grass"  is "dope" in an entirely
>>>different sense:  that of information, the "gen," the "skinny," the "poop."
>>>   Weren't racing forms sometimes called "dope sheets"?  Someone might say
>>>"I'll send you the dope on how to sign up."
>>>It was also a verb.  We used to say "I'm going to dope this out, " & sim.
>>>to mean try to understand instructions, or translate or work out a puzzle.
>>>A. Murie
>>>
>>Well, there's The Straight Dope, so how passé can it be?
>>
>>L
>~~~~~~~~~
>Sorry.  You've lost me there.  I know what it means in general but not in
>capitalized particular!
>AM

I'm referring to Cecil Adams's very useful, enjoyable, and almost
always reliable column (in the Chicago Reader) and web resource,
http://www.straightdope.com/, with searchable archives and other fun
stuff.  Sorry if I was too cryptic; the above web site has come up a
lot in previous discussions here, so I didn't elaborate.

Larry