"tacogate"; "posterize"; "the full Mozgov"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Quite right. Sorry for the confusion.
DanG



On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Dan Goncharoff  wrote:
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>> Is this the Jordan shot that has become (in silhouette) the emblem of the NBA?
>
> You may be conflating two logos. The NBA logo (designed in 1969) is
> based on the silhouette of Jerry West. Nike has used a silhouette of
> MJ for its Air Jordan merch, but the "Jumpman" logo predates the '91
> posterization (and is based on a studio photo and not an actual dunk
> shot):
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpman_(logo)
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> --bgz
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>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:12 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>> I looked into "posterize" a few years ago, and the earliest I found at
>>> the time was this WaPo article by Michael Wilbon, about Michael
>>> Jordan's famous shot in Game 2 of the '91 Finals (a dunk that became a
>>> layup to avoid Sam Perkins):
>>>
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>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/nba/longterm/jordan/articles/layup91.htm
>>> Great Shot! Jordan's Best Amazingly Goes One Better
>>> By Michael Wilbon
>>> Washington Post Staff Writer
>>> Friday, June 7, 1991; Page D01
>>> ...
>>> There was no indication Perkins would jump and attempt a block.
>>> Probably, Perkins just wanted to get out of the way and not be
>>> "posterized," which is what happens when the dunkee is humiliated by
>>> the dunker.
>>> ...
>>> Only one other such spectacular shot in a game of consequence comes to
>>> mind, the time in the 1980 NBA finals when Julius Erving wrapped
>>> himself around the basket, going out of bounds while in the air in the
>>> process, and posterized Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mark Landsberger with
>>> a reverse one-hand flip off the glass.
>>> ---
>>>
>>> I also found a variant, "poster" as a verb, attested from 1993.
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