TV word queries

[Wilson Gray]

Re (2): Yes.

-Wilson

On 2/11/07, Mark Peters <markpeters33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>   I'm still working on my TV words project and thought I'd seek some counsel:
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>   1) I'm hunting for the first use of correctamundo. Does anyone have a clue what season Fonzie started using it?
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>   2) Was babelicious used on the Wayne's World skits on SNL or just the movie?
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>   3) Similarly, was toxic bachelor prominent prior to Sex and the City because of Candace Bushnell's writing?
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>   4) Another research problem is the fact that not everything is on DVD. Aside from places like the Museum of TV and Radio, I could use a way to find DVDs of shows that aren't on DVD. Anyone know a reliable bootlegger or something?
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>   Any tips are much appreciated!
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>   Mark
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> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: "Fanny" in US English
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> At 3:10 PM -0500 2/10/07, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
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> >>"Fanny" has never been an English-language synonym for "person."
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> >I don't know that anybody ever suggested such a possibility at all.
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> Maybe not. But I can imagine someone looking back on this era with
> its various references in the sports pages and on sports radio to a
> team's motivation for signing a player being "to put fannies in the
> seats" and drawing that conclusion. (Or the one that came up earlier
> in Doug's reference to the 1900-10 reference to "fans and fannies".)
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> LH
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