Another SOTA?

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

I think maybe that Keith Olbermann was using the phrase when he was an
anchorman on ESPN's Sports Center, or one of the news shows he has done
since.

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> On 6/9/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> > >What does 'SOTA' mean?
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> > Sign Of The Apocalypse.
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> 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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> Subject: SOTA: Crawling From The Wreckage...
> Date: 1998/06/18
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> 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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