Horatio Alger as a verb? [was: earlier Boom!]

[Joel S. Berson]

"he was out Horatio Alger" -- "he was outing Horatio Alger?

(1)  "he was outdoing Horatio Alger" -- the home-town boy was
exceeding all reasonable expectations?
or --
(2)  "he was outing Horatio Alger" -- Horatio Alger was a gay??

But upon examination of the image, I find something much less
exciting -- "he was OUR Horatio Alger".

Joel

At 12/29/2011 02:34 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> From a 1994 bio of Newt Gingrich:
>
>http://goo.gl/IfBli
>Ellensburg Daily Record - Nov 28, 1994
>Jill Lawrence (AP). The Rise of the Backbencher. p. 5/2-3
>>"It shocked the town because he was out Horatio Alger. We were so
>>proud," said Floyd Hoskins, a retired West Georgia history professor
>>who was Gingrich's close friend and office-mate. The general reaction,
>>he said, was "You mean I helped buy the furniture for their house and
>>now he's throwing her out? A lot of people said, 'Boom, we don't like
>>Newt anymore.'"
>
>

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