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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