lipstick on a pig

[Scot LaFaive]

>to catch you on their

Of course I meant "there."
--"This is the most public yet of my many humilations."

Scot


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Scot LaFaive <slafaive at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I sat through 20 minutes of gibberish to catch you on their, Grant. Of
> all the worthwhile things to talk about with lexicography, it's a shame most
> people only care about it with such silly "issues."
>
> Scot
>
>   On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Grant Barrett <
> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
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>> Subject:      Re: lipstick on a pig
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>> It looks like Google's new newspaper initiative is paying off already.
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>> Here's a 198o use that, while it doesn't mention lipstick, is entirely
>> in line with the other variants: "dressing up a pig/hog," "putting
>> makeup on a pig/ hog", "perfume on a pig/hog," etc.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/piglipstick
>>
>> 1980 Quad-City Herald (Brewster, Wash.) (Jan. 31) "The Country Parson"
>> p. 3: You can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on it's [sic] tail, spray
>> it with perfume, but it is still a pig.
>>
>> By the way, I'm scheduled to speak about this on Fox News today at
>> 1:30 PM EDT, so thanks for the tips about this term so far (including
>> older stuff from Barry Popik in the archives).
>>
>> Grant Barrett
>> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
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