Iced Tea; Tailgate Picnic; "No Noose Is Good News" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 10/12/07, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
> > [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Barry Popik
> >
> > NO NOOSE IS GOOD NEWS--An old saying, also given as "No noose
> > is good noose." When did that saying start? What's behind the
> > recent noose news?
>
> Probably the recent unrest at Jena, LA.

Or, in a New York context, the hanging of a noose on a black
professor's office door at Columbia earlier this week.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/education/12columbia.html


--Ben Zimmer

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