manger = "cradle"

[Tom Zurinskas]

That's a crock ;)

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>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: manger = "cradle"
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:27:19 -0400
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>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: manger = "cradle"
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>At 6:11 AM -0700 8/17/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >Internationally famed megasuperstar Vanessa Hudgens said on _Fox &
> >Friends_ that she's wanted a show-biz career "ever since I was in
> >the manger."
> >
> >   Wackypedia would place that in 1988. If it wasn't just a lapse.
> >
> >
> >   JL
>
>Well, at least one assumes she wasn't exhibiting a dog-in-the-manger
>attitude when she said it.
>
>LH
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