TV word queries

[Sam Clements]

Using Google Groups(Usenet), type in "babelicious."  You get a first hit
from Mar 11, 1991.  Using the IMDB, one finds out that "Wayne's World" (the
movie) was 1992.

One assumes that unless the Usenet poster invented "babelicious," the word
was used in a SNL skit.

Sam Clements
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Peters" <markpeters33 at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: TV word queries


>  I'm still working on my TV words project and thought I'd seek some
> counsel:
>
>  1) I'm hunting for the first use of correctamundo. Does anyone have a
> clue what season Fonzie started using it?
>
>  2) Was babelicious used on the Wayne's World skits on SNL or just the
> movie?
>
>  3) Similarly, was toxic bachelor prominent prior to Sex and the City
> because of Candace Bushnell's writing?
>
>  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?
>
>  Any tips are much appreciated!
>
>  Mark
>
> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Laurence Horn
> Subject: Re: "Fanny" in US English
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>
> At 3:10 PM -0500 2/10/07, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Fanny" has never been an English-language synonym for "person."
>>
>>I don't know that anybody ever suggested such a possibility at all.
>>
> 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".)
>
> LH
>
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