Significant Antedating for "beaver" and "bearded clam" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Just in case there was any doubt, I'm aware that the "original" article
is a parody.  I just thought it was funny, and tried to extend the joke
by submitting what obviously isn't an antedating . . .

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> Am I the only one that knows the "Onion" is a satirical
> newspaper on the internet the last 5 years or so?
>
> Sam Clements
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> From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 22:54
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> > This can't be genuine -- John Jacob Aster did not arrive in America
> > until March 1784  [Wikipedia]. Apparently I didn't note
> that fact when
> > I submitted my antedating of "burger" (OED has it only from
> > 1939) which is in the same issue [see ADS-L archives, 11 Oct. 2008].
> >
> > And by the way, any submission needs to be dated "circa 6 October,
> > 1783" -- that's all the masthead says.
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > P.S.  For those really, really interested, I can provide a short,
> > selective, somewhat random criticism that concludes that
> the editors
> > of _The Onion_ did not do a very convincing job of emulating an
> > 18th-century newspaper.
> >
> > JSB
> >
> >
> > At 12/2/2008 05:54 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> >>OED has 1927 for this sense (female genitalia) of beaver,
> and does not
> >>list "bearded clam"
> >>
> >>"John Jacob Astor Out Looking for Beaver"  _The Onion_
> October 6, 1783
> >>p. 2 col 5
> >>
> >>"Should the enterprising GERMAN, by the Smile of good
> Fortune, reach
> >>the fertile back woods of New Hampshire, it is likely he
> may find him
> >>self secured to his very PUPILS in Beaver, and, we hasten to note,
> >>only good Beaver at that, and None of this foul Skunk Pelt seen in
> >>those parts of late. . . . He takes only a Brief Respite in
> the month
> >>of August, when the New Found-land Territories open season
> on the Wild Bearded Clam."
> >>
> >>http://www.theonion.com/content/news/historical_archives_john_jacob
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