Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV shows or characters, used as verbs

[Mark Mandel]

I posted that quote originally, from the LiveJournal of a friend who
is a part-time professional bartender.

Mark Mandel



On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Marc Velasco wrote:
>
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>> Subject:      Re: Queen Mary = wire-rack rolling cart; names of TV
>> shows or
>>              characters, used as verbs
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>> if anyone's still tracking this...
>> tonight on the simpsons, someone (moe?) told homer to _jack bauer_
>> someone,
>> ie, to interrogate/torture for information.
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> A sentence one of my fellow bartenders uttered last night while we
>>>> were breaking down the bars, and packing up all the stuff to take
>>>> back
>>>> to the MIT Faculty club where it goes:
>>>>
>>>> "I think I can MacGyver the rest of the liquor onto the Queen
>>>> Mary." ...
>>>>
>>>> ... But are there other television shows or television characters
>>>> which
>>>> have become verbs?
>>>>
>>>> ---
>
> who is the source of the embedded "A sentence one of my fellow
> bartenders ..." material that's quoted here?  i can't find it in the
> archives.
>
> arnold
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