WOTY Candidate
Arnold M. Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Tue Jan 2 17:29:12 UTC 2007
On Jan 2, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Larry Horn wrote:
> Whew! Google yields 99,200 (plus or minus) hits for "macaca moment",
> most of which are from 2006 (and none of which, I venture to say,
> predate George Allen's little self-destructive episode). Among the
> perps/victims are Virgil Goode of Virginia and Steve Ballmer of
> Microsoft, and that's just from the first page of hits. So it's
> clearly eligible.
cool. "macaca" lives!
arnold
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