WOTY Candidate

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/2/2007 12:29 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>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!

So it's not just not euphemistic but also not ephemeral.

Joel

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