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Starting: Wed Jun 1 00:03:55 UTC 2011
Ending: Thu Jun 30 20:35:05 UTC 2011
Messages: 577

• "traced to"   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• Jo Mama   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• "way overpay" as a unit   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• the power of "the"   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• Heard on Futurama:   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• drunk and disorderly   ronbutters at AOL.COM
• WordNet and Google   Randy Alexander
• Jesse, spread all over the Times   Baker, John
• The Meaning of "Make a Statement"   Baker, John
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Baker, John
• Whom anxiety?   Baker, John
• "Financials" Not in OED   Baker, John
• Parenthese   Benjamin Barrett
• Parenthese   Benjamin Barrett
• Fwd: Request from WAMU 88.5 in Washington, D.C.   Grant Barrett
• A parent on verbing nouns   Joel Berson
• Eudora problem   Joel Berson
• House numbering   Joel Berson
• QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"   Joel Berson
• House numbering -- minor detail   Joel Berson
• "Stuck on the Van Wyck"? New York dialect   Joel S. Berson
• Bilingualists are faster   Joel S. Berson
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Joel S. Berson
• Jesse, spread all over the Times   Joel S. Berson
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Joel S. Berson
• Jesse, spread all over the Times   Joel S. Berson
• rebranding   Joel S. Berson
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Joel S. Berson
• rebranding   Joel S. Berson
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Joel S. Berson
• Fwd: A quote for God, country, and Yale?   Joel S. Berson
• "to kick the bucket", 1789   Joel S. Berson
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Joel S. Berson
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Joel S. Berson
• The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]   Joel S. Berson
• "way overpay" as a unit   Joel S. Berson
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Joel S. Berson
• cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]   Joel S. Berson
• Scientific Conversions   Joel S. Berson
• Scientific Conversions   Joel S. Berson
• intactivist / intactivism   Joel S. Berson
• Scientific Conversions   Joel S. Berson
• cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]   Joel S. Berson
• "cynning" =? king   Joel S. Berson
• "traced to"   Joel S. Berson
• the "Streisand Effect"   Joel S. Berson
• "deja moo"   Joel S. Berson
• Paul Goncharoff   Joel S. Berson
• WOT moment - "Newtiny"   Joel S. Berson
• A reversed "replace"   Joel S. Berson
• "I don't know what all the _fuzz_ is about."   Joel S. Berson
• "go off" [was "step out"] = die   Joel S. Berson
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Joel S. Berson
• actor, actress, star   Joel S. Berson
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Joel S. Berson
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Joel S. Berson
• Signs that make you go "hmmmm"   Joel S. Berson
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Joel S. Berson
• QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"   Joel S. Berson
• "a nice girl like you"   Joel S. Berson
• House numbering -- minor detail   Joel S. Berson
• QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"   Joel S. Berson
• House numbering   Joel S. Berson
• House numbering [1817 Boston]   Joel S. Berson
• Does the OED oppose "contrapose"?   Joel S. Berson
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Joel S. Berson
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Joel S. Berson
• drunk and disorderly   Joel S. Berson
• molest, n.   Joel S. Berson
• House numbering in Boston -- 1784   Joel S. Berson
• drunk and disorderly   Joel S. Berson
• Whom anxiety?   Joel S. Berson
• Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?   Joel S. Berson
• Whom anxiety?   Joel S. Berson
• Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?   Joel S. Berson
• Whom anxiety?   Joel S. Berson
• Jo Mama   Ron Butters
• "a nice girl like you"   Ron Butters
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Ronald Butters
• drunk and disorderly   Ronald Butters
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Gerald Cohen
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• Blend: "don't have the first clue about..."   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• "cynning" =? king   Gail Davidson
• MA tornadoes   Joanne Despres
• Springfield   Joanne Despres
• Eggcorn: grandeloquent   Charles C Doyle
• rebranding   Charles C Doyle
• viral tot mom   Charles C Doyle
• "cynning" =? king   Charles C Doyle
• the power of "the"   Charles C Doyle
• the butt patrol   Charles C Doyle
• Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal] (probably 1985)   Charles C Doyle
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Charles C Doyle
• molest, n.   Charles C Doyle
• drunk and disorderly   Charles C Doyle
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Federico Escobar
• Fwd: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   Alice Faber
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Alice Faber
• Signs that make you go "hmmmm"   Alice Faber
• Signs that make you go "hmmmm"   Alice Faber
• "a nice girl like you"   John Fitzpatrick
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Dan Goncharoff
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Dan Goncharoff
• rebranding   Dan Goncharoff
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Dan Goncharoff
• OED's "bogey" and "par"   Dan Goncharoff
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Dan Goncharoff
• Not in HDAS?   Dan Goncharoff
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Dan Goncharoff
• How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"   Dan Goncharoff
• "way overpay" as a unit   Dan Goncharoff
• _Travel_ as TRANS   Dan Goncharoff
• Paul Goncharoff   Dan Goncharoff
• A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."   Dan Goncharoff
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Dan Goncharoff
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Dan Goncharoff
• Heard on Futurama:   Dan Goncharoff
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Dan Goncharoff
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Dan Goncharoff
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Dan Goncharoff
• "a nice girl like you"   Dan Goncharoff
• succession = 'secession'   Dan Goncharoff
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Dan Goncharoff
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Dan Goncharoff
• molest, n.   Dan Goncharoff
• molest, n.   Dan Goncharoff
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Dan Goncharoff
• "Financials" Not in OED   Dan Goncharoff
• Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?   Dan Goncharoff
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Stephen Goranson
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Stephen Goranson
• If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)   Stephen Goranson
• If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)   Stephen Goranson
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Stephen Goranson
• "a nice girl like you"   Stephen Goranson
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Heard on The Judges, etc.   Gordon, Matthew J.
• Heard on The Judges, etc.   Gordon, Matthew J.
• "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)   Gordon, Matthew J.
• "Skank"   Wilson Gray
• Not in HDAS?   Wilson Gray
• MA tornadoes   Wilson Gray
• Not in HDAS?   Wilson Gray
• "... an _inciteful_ critical observer ..." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Wilson Gray
• Not in HDAS?   Wilson Gray
• Not in HDAS?   Wilson Gray
• Jo Mama   Wilson Gray
• Headline: "Stamping Out Low-Cost Nanodevices"   Wilson Gray
• Jo Mama   Wilson Gray
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Wilson Gray
• Jo Mama   Wilson Gray
• viral tot mom   Wilson Gray
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Wilson Gray
• intactivist / intactivism   Wilson Gray
• cold hot coffee [was: missing the concept]   Wilson Gray
• _Travel_ as TRANS   Wilson Gray
• Paul Goncharoff   Wilson Gray
• Posted to Slashdot: "Customers think the sales force is just interested in _alleviating_ them of their money!" [NT]   Wilson Gray
• "cynning" =? king   Wilson Gray
• A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges   Wilson Gray
• A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."   Wilson Gray
• Word-final [Ng] in BE?   Wilson Gray
• "I don't know what all the _fuzz_ is about."   Wilson Gray
• Not in HDAS? _brumsky_   Wilson Gray
• Not in HDAS? _brumsky_   Wilson Gray
• beyond words   Wilson Gray
• _Narrative_   Wilson Gray
• _Narrative_   Wilson Gray
• "It was as disappointing as all _get-go_!" [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Heard on "[Name] and Bash"   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges, etc.   Wilson Gray
• PC in "It's Always Sunny in Philadephia"   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges, etc.   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges, etc.   Wilson Gray
• The Meaning of "Make a Statement"   Wilson Gray
• _Kicks_ = "shoes" in 1941?   Wilson Gray
• _G-string_   Wilson Gray
• HDAS: _kicky_ "delightful; diverting; exciting." 1942, 1966; an undocumented interdating   Wilson Gray
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November)   Wilson Gray
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Wilson Gray
• Non-abusive tot moms   Wilson Gray
• actor, actress, star   Wilson Gray
• It's new to me:   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Futurama:   Wilson Gray
• "Copyright _for_ [Name], LLC"   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Futurama:   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Futurama:   Wilson Gray
• "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")   Wilson Gray
• "... sporting _a_ much trimmer _buttock_."   Wilson Gray
• "This is the proverbial pot that we have to shit or get off of." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• Missed-point dept.   Wilson Gray
• masseuse = 'masseur'   Wilson Gray
• cankle and fralp   Wilson Gray
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Wilson Gray
• _Hardleg_, UD 2006:   Wilson Gray
• the butt patrol   Wilson Gray
• _Hardleg_, UD 2006:   Wilson Gray
• _Glee_ "brag, get all all happy," etc.   Wilson Gray
• the butt patrol   Wilson Gray
• Google and the BL   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Springer: _cold play_. It's *not* only rock 'n' roll?   Wilson Gray
• What are you going to do?:-(   Wilson Gray
• What are you going to do?:-(   Wilson Gray
• A parent on verbing nouns   Wilson Gray
• the butt patrol   Wilson Gray
• An oldie? "... hammer and tongues ..."   Wilson Gray
• the butt patrol   Wilson Gray
• "due"   Wilson Gray
• "a nice girl like you"   Wilson Gray
• "a nice girl like you"   Wilson Gray
• Headline: Australian ISP's To Start _Filtering_ the Internet   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Springer: in re the BIN+verb dialect-split in BE   Wilson Gray
• Memorable Quotations for 2011 - candidate courtesy of Conan O'Brien   Wilson Gray
• molest, n.   Wilson Gray
• UD: _Master texting_   Wilson Gray
• molest, n.   Wilson Gray
• "That's racist!" [Was Re: Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)]   Wilson Gray
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Wilson Gray
• molest, n.   Wilson Gray
• Heard on Springer: more BE _BIN_   Wilson Gray
• drunk and disorderly   Wilson Gray
• Heard on The Judges: _the gate_ = "the start, the get-go, the B-ginning, the B-go," etc.   Wilson Gray
• Whom anxiety?   Wilson Gray
• Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?   Wilson Gray
• If enough people believe it, then it must be true.   Wilson Gray
• Barbara Need notes the use of...   Wilson Gray
• "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• step out= to die   Joan H. Hall
• Scientific Conversions   James Harbeck
• _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   Dave Hause
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Dave Hause
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Dave Hause
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Dave Hause
• "a nice girl like you"   Dave Hause
• Travel_ as TRANS   Brian Hitchcock
• A reversed "replace"   Brian Hitchcock
• Travel_ as TRANS   Brian Hitchcock
• _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   Laurence Horn
• Fwd: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   Laurence Horn
• Fwd: Re: _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   Laurence Horn
• Jesse, spread all over the Times   Laurence Horn
• Eggcorn: grandeloquent   Laurence Horn
• rebranding   Laurence Horn
• (temporary) SOTA   Laurence Horn
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Laurence Horn
• Not in HDAS?   Laurence Horn
• How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"   Laurence Horn
• "way overpay" as a unit   Laurence Horn
• not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_   Laurence Horn
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Laurence Horn
• not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_   Laurence Horn
• the power of "the"   Laurence Horn
• "cynning" =? king   Laurence Horn
• deal   Laurence Horn
• A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."   Laurence Horn
• doughnuts = 'money'   Laurence Horn
• "on the loom"   Laurence Horn
• sidekick = 'side dish'   Laurence Horn
• _Narrative_   Laurence Horn
• egress/ingress   Laurence Horn
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November)   Laurence Horn
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Laurence Horn
• Non-abusive tot moms   Laurence Horn
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Laurence Horn
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Laurence Horn
• actor, actress, star   Laurence Horn
• "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")   Laurence Horn
• Heard on Futurama:   Laurence Horn
• "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")   Laurence Horn
• "... sporting _a_ much trimmer _buttock_."   Laurence Horn
• _Hardleg_, UD 2006:   Laurence Horn
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Laurence Horn
• the butt patrol   Laurence Horn
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Laurence Horn
• the butt patrol   Laurence Horn
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Laurence Horn
• Antedating(1906) "Brooklyn side" (bowling) and a theory   Laurence Horn
• "a nice girl like you"   Laurence Horn
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Laurence Horn
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Laurence Horn
• molest, n.   Laurence Horn
• Whom anxiety?   Laurence Horn
• Whom anxiety?   Laurence Horn
• "Stuck on the Van Wyck"? New York dialect   Paul Johnston
• "cynning" =? king   Paul Johnston
• _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   Margaret Lee
• rebranding   Margaret Lee
• doughnuts = 'money' (UNCLASSIFIED)   Guy Letourneau
• _Kiss my grits!_   Jonathan Lighter
• braggadocious   Jonathan Lighter
• braggadocious   Jonathan Lighter
• squirmish; pub   Jonathan Lighter
• rebranding   Jonathan Lighter
• readout   Jonathan Lighter
• rebranding   Jonathan Lighter
• rebranding   Jonathan Lighter
• to MacGuff   Jonathan Lighter
• MA tornadoes   Jonathan Lighter
• (temporary) SOTA   Jonathan Lighter
• Not in HDAS?   Jonathan Lighter
• squirmish; pub   Jonathan Lighter
• squirmish   Jonathan Lighter
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Jonathan Lighter
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Jonathan Lighter
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Jonathan Lighter
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Jonathan Lighter
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Jonathan Lighter
• rebranding   Jonathan Lighter
• baked in the cake; drawers   Jonathan Lighter
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Jonathan Lighter
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Jonathan Lighter
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Jonathan Lighter
• viral tot mom   Jonathan Lighter
• HDAS ahead of schedule?   Jonathan Lighter
• veHEment   Jonathan Lighter
• despairing = 'discouraging'   Jonathan Lighter
• the power of "the"   Jonathan Lighter
• the "Streisand Effect"   Jonathan Lighter
• deal   Jonathan Lighter
• naughty Internet initialisms   Jonathan Lighter
• doughnuts = 'money'   Jonathan Lighter
• sidekick = 'side dish'   Jonathan Lighter
• sidekick = 'side dish'   Jonathan Lighter
• Not in HDAS? _brumsky_   Jonathan Lighter
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Jonathan Lighter
• Non-abusive tot moms   Jonathan Lighter
• actor, actress, star   Jonathan Lighter
• Non-abusive tot moms   Jonathan Lighter
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Jonathan Lighter
• actor, actress, star   Jonathan Lighter
• Non-abusive tot moms   Jonathan Lighter
• Non-abusive tot moms   Jonathan Lighter
• actor, actress, star   Jonathan Lighter
• Missed-point dept.   Jonathan Lighter
• cankle and fralp   Jonathan Lighter
• masseuse = 'masseur'   Jonathan Lighter
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Jonathan Lighter
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   Jonathan Lighter
• _Hardleg_, UD 2006:   Jonathan Lighter
• the butt patrol   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Jonathan Lighter
• the butt patrol   Jonathan Lighter
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Jonathan Lighter
• What are you going to do?:-(   Jonathan Lighter
• "due"   Jonathan Lighter
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Jonathan Lighter
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Jonathan Lighter
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6) (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• "due"   Jonathan Lighter
• "due"   Jonathan Lighter
• "due"   Jonathan Lighter
• "a nice girl like you"   Jonathan Lighter
• molest, n.   Jonathan Lighter
• molest, n.   Jonathan Lighter
• succession = 'secession'   Jonathan Lighter
• "That's racist!" [Was Re: Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)]   Jonathan Lighter
• retail therapy   Jonathan Lighter
• Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?   Jonathan Lighter
• "put" anxiety   Jonathan Lighter
• "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Jocelyn Limpert
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Jocelyn Limpert
• Comments thread about British accents in comics   Mark Mandel
• baked in the cake; drawers   John McChesney-Young
• Jo Mama (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• doughnuts = 'money' (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November) (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question) (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6) (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• menna   Lynne Murphy
• Antedating(1906) "Brooklyn side" (bowling) and a theory   sclements at NEO.RR.COM
• rebranding   Eric Nielsen
• baked in the cake; drawers   Eric Nielsen
• The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]   Eric Nielsen
• Headline: "Stamping Out Low-Cost Nanodevices"   Eric Nielsen
• doughnuts = 'money' (UNCLASSIFIED)   Eric Nielsen
• Heard on "[Name] and Bash"   Eric Nielsen
• braggadocious   Garson O'Toole
• WordNet and Google   Garson O'Toole
• A quote for God, country, and Yale?   Garson O'Toole
• Kick the bucket (antedating grammatical variant 1778 February; also 1780)   Garson O'Toole
• The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]   Garson O'Toole
• baked in the cake; drawers   Garson O'Toole
• Scientific Conversions   Garson O'Toole
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Garson O'Toole
• not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_   Garson O'Toole
• Scientific Conversions   Garson O'Toole
• "deja moo"   Garson O'Toole
• not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_   Garson O'Toole
• A: "I'd _rep your post a thousand times_, if I could."   Garson O'Toole
• sidekick = 'side dish'   Garson O'Toole
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Garson O'Toole
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Garson O'Toole
• step out= to die   Garson O'Toole
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog (antedating 1865 November)   Garson O'Toole
• If you can't beat them join them (UNCLASSIFIED)   Garson O'Toole
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Garson O'Toole
• "pumping (up) someone's tires" = 'praise, flatter'   Garson O'Toole
• "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")   Garson O'Toole
• "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")   Garson O'Toole
• Term "True Religion"   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive   Garson O'Toole
• Topical quote about the blood supply to the brain and other organs (Robin Williams 1995)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: It is difficult to predict, especially the future (variant in English 1956) (attrib Neils Bohr 1971); Question about Danish text   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: It is difficult to predict, especially the future (variant in English 1956) (attrib Neils Bohr 1971); Question about Danish text   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive   Garson O'Toole
• _Hardleg_, UD 2006:   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Garson O'Toole
• Memorable Quotations for 2011 - candidate courtesy of Conan O'Brien   Garson O'Toole
• Blend: "don't have the first clue about..."   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal] (probably 1985)   Garson O'Toole
• "suction about"   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: throwing (shoving) under the bus [political sacrifice or removal] (probably 1985)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Proverb: Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill (1977 July 29)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Garson O'Toole
• Modern Fable: Lions and gazelles (Dan Montano 1985 July 6)   Garson O'Toole
• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet (antedating attrib Hugh Keough 1919 February 8)   Garson O'Toole
• The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet (antedating attrib Hugh Keough 1919 February 8)   Garson O'Toole
• "due"   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Garson O'Toole
• "due"   Garson O'Toole
• "a nice girl like you"   Garson O'Toole
• "a nice girl like you"   Garson O'Toole
• QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"   Garson O'Toole
• Meta-Quote: I really didn't say everything I said (Yogi Berra 1986 February 24)   Garson O'Toole
• truthy and falsy   Patty
• Rules of Etymology of Initialism - Specific case, "BDSM"   Sinful Sailor
• Term "True Religion"   Shapiro, Fred
• Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive   Shapiro, Fred
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Shapiro, Fred
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Shapiro, Fred
• Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)   Shapiro, Fred
• "Financials" Not in OED   Shapiro, Fred
• foo foo rah   Michael Sheehan
• Jesse, spread all over the Times   Jesse Sheidlower
• missing the concept   Jesse Sheidlower
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Jesse Sheidlower
• milli-Helen, milliHelen, as a unit of beauty (1958 March 11)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive   Jesse Sheidlower
• Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive   Jesse Sheidlower
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Jesse Sheidlower
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Jesse Sheidlower
• "English" -- a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jesse Sheidlower
• _Narrative_   Victor Steinbok
• egress/ingress   Victor Steinbok
• "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")   Victor Steinbok
• Not in HDAS?   George Thompson
• baked in the cake; drawers   George Thompson
• "step out" = die, 1846   George Thompson
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   George Thompson
• "fact" = "supposition", "hypothesis", from 1831   George Thompson
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   George Thompson
• "suction about"   George Thompson
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   George Thompson
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   George Thompson
• "a nice girl like you"   George Thompson
• Siamese coupling (variant), from 1831   George Thompson
• For the fans of mad prescriptivism   George Thompson
• "A Gymnick"   George Thompson
• drunk and disorderly   George Thompson
• "fuik" and "sea dog"   George Thompson
• OT: Bilingualism and dementia   Amy West
• squirmish; pub   Amy West
• MA tornadoes   Amy West
• Springfield   Amy West
• Keyser-Soeze Phenomenon   Amy West
• Hyphens and dashes, oh my   Amy West
• Eggcorn: grandeloquent   Neal Whitman
• Non-abusive tot moms   Neal Whitman
• Transitive "surge"   Neal Whitman
• "This is the proverbial pot that we have to shit or get off of." [NT]   Neal Whitman
• How dare I?   Neal Whitman
• the butt patrol   Neal Whitman
• Parenthesee   Neal Whitman
• Parenthesee   Neal Whitman
• "Not once but twice" triggers subj-aux inversion?   Neal Whitman
• "Fizhure"   Douglas G. Wilson
• Colloquialism: to see a man about a dog   Douglas G. Wilson
• Quote: It is difficult to predict, especially the future (variant in English 1956) (attrib Neils Bohr 1971); Question about Danish text   Douglas G. Wilson
• Grammar question -- "from throughout the year"?   Douglas G. Wilson
• "fuik" and "sea dog"   Douglas G. Wilson
• "fuik" and "sea dog"   Douglas G. Wilson
• "cynning" =? king   Dave Wilton
• viral tot mom   Ben Zimmer
• intactivist / intactivism   Ben Zimmer
• deal   Ben Zimmer
• Lockjaw: Locust Valley (1965), Long Island (1972), Larchmont (1973)   Ben Zimmer
• political blend du jour: Obamneycare   Ben Zimmer
• "hashtag" = 'hash symbol'   Ben Zimmer
• Bowie on Palin   Ben Zimmer
• "pumping (up) someone's tires" = 'praise, flatter'   Ben Zimmer
• It's new to me:   Ben Zimmer
• Transitive "surge"   Ben Zimmer
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   Ben Zimmer
• Signs that make you go "hmmmm"   Ben Zimmer
• "pumping (up) someone's tires" = 'praise, flatter'   Ben Zimmer
• squirmish; pub   Tom Zurinskas
• "way overpay" as a unit   Tom Zurinskas
• How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"   Tom Zurinskas
• How do you say "associatoin" and "associate" (v) or "associated"   Tom Zurinskas
• Scientific Conversions   Tom Zurinskas
• WOT moment - "Newtiny"   Tom Zurinskas
• "Fizhure"   Tom Zurinskas
• beyond words   Tom Zurinskas
• long, short, diphthongs   Tom Zurinskas
• how to say "automotive" USA/UK   Tom Zurinskas
• Term "True Religion"   Tom Zurinskas
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Tom Zurinskas
• Foreign Accent Syndrome   Tom Zurinskas
• UD: _Master texting_   Tom Zurinskas
• Eggcorn: grandeloquent   Arnold Zwicky
• squirmish; pub   Arnold Zwicky
• squirmish   Arnold Zwicky
• parasites and the body politic   Arnold Zwicky
• deal   Arnold Zwicky
• Travel_ as TRANS   Arnold Zwicky
• foo foo rah   Arnold Zwicky
• foo foo rah   Arnold Zwicky
• Signs that make you go "hmmmm"   Arnold Zwicky
• cankle and fralp   Arnold Zwicky
• the butt patrol   Arnold Zwicky
• the butt patrol   Arnold Zwicky
• "dudo", 1840, meaning ???   Arnold Zwicky
• "slangevity"   Arnold Zwicky
• Parenthese   Arnold Zwicky
• molest, n.   Arnold Zwicky
• "That's racist!" [Was Re: Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)]   Arnold Zwicky
• molest, n.   Arnold Zwicky
• molest, n.   Arnold Zwicky
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   paul johnson
• Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)   paul johnson
• "on the loom"   maberry at uw.edu
• _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   victor steinbok
• _Kiss my grits!_ = "Kiss my ass!," by a writer for The Family Guy   victor steinbok
• rebranding   victor steinbok
• MA tornadoes   victor steinbok
• MA tornadoes   victor steinbok
• Jo Mama   victor steinbok
• "way overpay" as a unit   victor steinbok
• "way overpay" as a unit   victor steinbok
• missing the concept   victor steinbok
• algarabia   victor steinbok
• algarabia   victor steinbok
• Scientific Conversions   victor steinbok
• not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_   victor steinbok
• not new, but new to me: _Trivalry_   victor steinbok
• Scientific Conversions   victor steinbok
• "traced to"   victor steinbok
• Paul Goncharoff   victor steinbok
• beyond words   victor steinbok
• The Meaning of "Make a Statement"   victor steinbok
• great lines in blog comments   victor steinbok
• Missed-point dept. (origin of "Joe" (coffee)   victor steinbok
• QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"   victor steinbok
• House numbering -- minor detail   victor steinbok
• QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"   victor steinbok
• House numbering -- minor detail   victor steinbok

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