"haunting ground" = stomping ground

[Jonathan Lighter]

When I'm dead I'll keep on haunting it.

Google Books has an old  "Happy Haunting Grounds," but it's ghosts.

JL

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:29 AM, George Thompson
<george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

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> > > > Rick Sanchez of CNN, who seems alive, has just alluded - twice - to
> > > > his "old
> > > > haunting grounds in South Florida."  (JL)
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> > > Somehow looks more like a blend of _stamping_ and _hunting_.
> > > AM (Alison Murie )
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> > Mightn't it be related to "haunts," as in "his old haunts?"  (Kari
> Castor)
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> Or "haunt" as a verb, meaning to frequent?  When I was in college, I used
> to haunt that bar.
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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