Another SOTA?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/9/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> >What does 'SOTA' mean?
>
> Sign Of The Apocalypse.

Evidently popularized by fans of the show Mystery Science Theater
3000. It was first used on the newsgroup rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc on
June 18, 1998.

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http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc/msg/d4ff0417d77cc9be

Subject: SOTA: Crawling From The Wreckage...
Date: 1998/06/18
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc

Dark Horizons is reporting that Dennis Quaid is set to star in
"Eye of the Storm"...a remake of "The Crawling Eye."
[...]
Oh, BTW, SOTA stands for "Sign of the Apocalypse". About time it got
its own heading,no?
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--Ben Zimmer

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