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Starting: Fri Jun 1 03:03:55 UTC 2012
Ending: Sat Jun 30 22:17:32 UTC 2012
Messages: 544

• "... a _pending_ war ..."   Wilson Gray
• "... having come across it here _in_ there ..."   Wilson Gray
• "... having come across it here _in_ there ..."   Arnold Zwicky
• "... having come across it here _in_ there ..."   Wilson Gray
• "_every_ since"   Wilson Gray
• "_every_ since"   Arnold Zwicky
• "_every_ since"   Charles C Doyle
• "_every_ since"   Tom Zurinskas
• "_every_ since"   Laurence Horn
• "a day that [date which] will live in infamy"   Joel S. Berson
• "a day that [date which] will live in infamy"   Wilson Gray
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Laurence Horn
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Arnold Zwicky
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Joel S. Berson
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Alice Faber
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Laurence Horn
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Joel S. Berson
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Dan Goncharoff
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Joel S. Berson
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Victor Steinbok
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Victor Steinbok
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Victor Steinbok
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Laurence Horn
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Dan Nussbaum
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Wilson Gray
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Reinhold {Rey} Aman
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Reinhold {Rey} Aman
• "a day that will live in infamy" (in a positive way)   Joel S. Berson
• "a Dunkirk experience"   Jonathan Lighter
• "a Dunkirk experience"   Laurence Horn
• "All politics is local!"   Jonathan Lighter
• "All politics is local!"   Wilson Gray
• "ancestors" in NYT   Barbara Need
• "ancestors" in NYT   Dan Goncharoff
• "ancestors" in NYT   Wilson Gray
• "ancestors" in NYT   Jonathan Lighter
• "ancestors" in NYT   Wilson Gray
• "ancestors" in NYT   Joel S. Berson
• "ancestors" in NYT   Laurence Horn
• "antilocution"   Arnold Zwicky
• "Automatize"   Wilson Gray
• "Automatize"   Victor Steinbok
• "Automatize"   David Barnhart
• "Automatize"   Benjamin Barrett
• "Automatize"   Laurence Horn
• "Automatize"   Benjamin Barrett
• "babysit" zero preterite   Neal Whitman
• "babysit" zero preterite   Laurence Horn
• "babysit" zero preterite   Wilson Gray
• "babysit" zero preterite   Neal Whitman
• "babysit" zero preterite   Laurence Horn
• "babysit" zero preterite   Wilson Gray
• "babysit" zero preterite   Benjamin Barrett
• "basket house"   Ben Zimmer
• "basket house"   Wilson Gray
• "basket house"   Amy West
• "basket house"   Laurence Horn
• "bend of mind" -- possible eggcorn?   Joel S. Berson
• "bend of mind" -- possible eggcorn?   Wilson Gray
• "bend of mind" -- possible eggcorn?   Joel S. Berson
• "bend of mind" -- possible eggcorn?   Garson O'Toole
• "bend of mind" -- possible eggcorn?   Charles C Doyle
• "Charter-member" vs. "chartered member"   Wilson Gray
• "complicit"   Jonathan Lighter
• "cream-puff inhaler", "cake-eater"   Arnold Zwicky
• "dacting", from _Veep_   Laurence Horn
• "dacting", from _Veep_   Wilson Gray
• "dacting", from _Veep_   Dan Goncharoff
• "dacting", from _Veep_   George Thompson
• "dacting", from _Veep_   Laurence Horn
• "dacting", from _Veep_   Laurence Horn
• "difference without a distinction"   David Barnhart
• "Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945   Jonathan Lighter
• "Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945   Jonathan Lighter
• "Don't let the bastards get you down!" 1945   Geoff Nathan
• "emperico-" 1738; antedates OED2 1895--   Joel S. Berson
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Geoffrey Nunberg
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Victor Steinbok
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Geoff Nathan
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Jonathan Lighter
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Neal Whitman
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Geoffrey Nunberg
• "erectile dysfunction" -- not for tender ears?   Wilson Gray
• "Every single person in here is related"   Laurence Horn
• "Every single person in here is related"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Every single person in here is related"   Garson O'Toole
• "expendable" = 'wasteful, extravagant, expensive'   Joel S. Berson
• "Fire Sale" Not in OED?   Shapiro, Fred
• "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set   Laurence Horn
• "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set   Victor Steinbok
• "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set   Joel S. Berson
• "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set   Laurence Horn
• "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set   Joel S. Berson
• "foiemageddon", WOTY for the lily-livered set   Laurence Horn
• "Its not about _signaling out_ one group!"   Wilson Gray
• "Its not about _signaling out_ one group!"   Ben Zimmer
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Dan Goncharoff
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Arnold Zwicky
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Randy Alexander
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Dan Goncharoff
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Arnold Zwicky
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Randy Alexander
• "Look less-powerful weapons"   Arnold Zwicky
• "lower back", the euphemism   Joel S. Berson
• "making streaks"   George Thompson
• "making streaks"   Joel S. Berson
• "Mora" zero plural   Douglas G. Wilson
• "Mora" zero plural   Laurence Horn
• "Mora" zero plural   Victor Steinbok
• "piss-cutting"   Jonathan Lighter
• "pre-divorce license"   Dan Goodman
• "remalayalamer" [Was: "dacting", from _Veep_]   Joel S. Berson
• "Search" as a mass noun   Neal Whitman
• "Search" as a mass noun   Ben Zimmer
• "Shaven"   Wilson Gray
• "Shaven"   Douglas G. Wilson
• "Shaven"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Shaven"   David A. Daniel
• "Shaven"   David A. Daniel
• "Shaven"   W Brewer
• "Shaven"   Jonathan Lighter
• "Shaven"   George Thompson
• "Shaven"   Baker, John
• "Shaven"   Laurence Horn
• "Shaven"   Joel S. Berson
• "Shaven"   Laurence Horn
• "Shaven"   Laurence Horn
• "Shaven"   Joel S. Berson
• "Shaven"   Wilson Gray
• "Shaven"   W Brewer
• "Shaven"   Victor Steinbok
• "Shaven"   Paul Johnston
• "Shaven"   Joel S. Berson
• "Shaven"   W Brewer
• "Shaven"   Joel S. Berson
• "spicing" horses   George Thompson
• "The _hopper_"   Wilson Gray
• "The _hopper_"   Paul Johnston
• "The _hopper_"   Dan Goncharoff
• "The _hopper_"   Wilson Gray
• "The _hopper_"   Wilson Gray
• "The _hopper_"   Paul Johnston
• "The _hopper_"   Wilson Gray
• "The _hopper_"   Victor Steinbok
• "The _hopper_"   Gordon, Matthew J.
• "The _hopper_"   Victor Steinbok
• "The _hopper_"   Ben Zimmer
• "The _hopper_"   Paul Johnston
• "The _hopper_"   Dan Nussbaum
• "The _hopper_"   W Brewer
• "The _hopper_"   Ben Zimmer
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Jonathan Lighter
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Stephen Goranson
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Garson O'Toole
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Charles C Doyle
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Garson O'Toole
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Jonathan Lighter
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Jonathan Lighter
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Garson O'Toole
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Jonathan Lighter
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Garson O'Toole
• "The last war fought between gentlemen"   Victor Steinbok
• "The perp was described as an Indian."   Wilson Gray
• "The perp was described as an Indian."   Baker, John
• "tits" = 'balls'   Jonathan Lighter
• "trench on"   Joel S. Berson
• "ultrajectine", 1730, not in OED   Joel S. Berson
• "ultrajectine", 1730, not in OED   Douglas G. Wilson
• "ultrajectine", 1730, not in OED   Wilson Gray
• "ultrajectine", 1730, not in OED   Joel S. Berson
• "ultrajectine", 1730, not in OED   Wilson Gray
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Jonathan Lighter
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Shapiro, Fred
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Jonathan Lighter
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Laurence Horn
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Victor Steinbok
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Jonathan Lighter
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Jonathan Lighter
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Victor Steinbok
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Baker, John
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Garson O'Toole
• "What part of no don't you understand?"   Jonathan Lighter
• 1776 "difference without a distinction"   David Barnhart
• 1776 "difference without a distinction"   Jonathan Lighter
• 1776 "difference without a distinction"   Charles C Doyle
• 1835 "difference without a distinction"   David Barnhart
• 1944 "difference without a distinction"   David Barnhart
• [VAR-L] Alan Duncan issues memo at DFID banning jargon words such as 'going forward'   Arnold Zwicky
• _dip[shit]_ from 1909?   Wilson Gray
• _dip[shit]_ from 1909?   Baker, John
• _Fulcrum_ > "lever"   Wilson Gray
• A "redaction" of the DHS's list of "bad" words   Wilson Gray
• According to MW: Top-10 Commonly-Confused Words, Vol. 2   Wilson Gray
• According to MW: Top-10 Commonly-Confused Words, Vol. 2   Victor Steinbok
• Adage: climate is what on an average we expect, weather is what we actually get (1902)   Garson O'Toole
• Adage: climate is what on an average we expect, weather is what we actually get (1902)   Victor Steinbok
• Adage: climate is what on an average we expect, weather is what we actually get (1902)   Garson O'Toole
• Adage: climate is what on an average we expect, weather is what we actually get (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Adage: Golf is a good walk spoiled (Mark Twain attrib 1948 August 28)   Garson O'Toole
• Adoption of a Southern accent   Benjamin Barrett
• Adoption of a Southern accent   Neal Whitman
• Adoption of a Southern accent   Victor Steinbok
• ADS-L Digest - 5 Jun 2012 to 6 Jun 2012 (#2012-159)   Geraldine Hizer
• ADS-L Digest - 5 Jun 2012 to 6 Jun 2012 (#2012-159)   Arnold Zwicky
• ADS-L Digest - 5 Jun 2012 to 6 Jun 2012 (#2012-159)   Laurence Horn
• ADS-L Digest - 6 Jun 2012 to 7 Jun 2012 (#2012-160)   Geraldine Hizer
• american-corporate-buzzwords-by-decades   Dan Goncharoff
• american-corporate-buzzwords-by-decades   Garson O'Toole
• american-corporate-buzzwords-by-decades   Garson O'Toole
• And then I looked around...   David Barnhart
• Another collection of random finds   Victor Steinbok
• antedating dittoed WAS statistical jargon (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• antedating mundane / OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• antedating mundane / OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jeff Prucher
• antedating mundane / OED SF database (UNCLASSIFIED)   Garson O'Toole
• Antedating of "Closed Shop"   Shapiro, Fred
• Antedating of "Sibling"   Shapiro, Fred
• antedating of SWAG   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating of SWAG   David Barnhart
• antedating of SWAG   Garson O'Toole
• antedating of SWAG   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating of SWAG   Garson O'Toole
• antedating of SWAG (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• antedating of SWAG (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• antedating slum (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• antilocution   Jonathan Lighter
• antilocution   Arnold Zwicky
• antilocution   Laurence Horn
• antilocution   Laurence Horn
• antilocution   Arnold Zwicky
• antilocution   Wilson Gray
• any clues   David Barnhart
• any clues   sclements at NEO.RR.COM
• any clues   George Thompson
• any clues   Garson O'Toole
• any clues   Dave Wilton
• any clues   Arnold Zwicky
• any clues   George Thompson
• any clues   Douglas G. Wilson
• any clues   Joel S. Berson
• any clues   Garson O'Toole
• any clues   Garson O'Toole
• any clues   Joel S. Berson
• A recovered memory   Wilson Gray
• A Shakespearean stage-diretion:   Wilson Gray
• A speech-act   Wilson Gray
• associate, adj. and n.   Victor Steinbok
• associate, adj. and n.   Jonathan Lighter
• associate, adj. and n.   Joel S. Berson
• associate, adj. and n.   paul johnson
• associate, adj. and n.   Dan Goncharoff
• associate, adj. and n.   Victor Steinbok
• associate, adj. and n.   Victor Steinbok
• Auto Response   Golnaz Jamalifar
• being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jesse Sheidlower
• being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)   Joel S. Berson
• being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jesse Sheidlower
• being pants (UNCLASSIFIED)   Chris Waigl
• Betty Martin (my eye), antedatings   Stephen Goranson
• Bridewell   Joel S. Berson
• Bridewell   paul johnson
• Bridewell   Dan Goncharoff
• Clown question   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Clown question   Alice Faber
• Clown question   Joel S. Berson
• clown question   David Barnhart
• clown question   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• clown question   Joel S. Berson
• clown question   Alice Faber
• clown question   Benjamin Barrett
• clown question   Garson O'Toole
• Colbert   Wilson Gray
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Arnold Zwicky
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Jonathan Lighter
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Garson O'Toole
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Laurence Horn
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Jonathan Lighter
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Victor Steinbok
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Laurence Horn
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater   Wilson Gray
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• cream-puff inhaler; cake-eater (UNCLASSIFIED)   Charles C Doyle
• Cut one's name   Dave Wilton
• Cut one's name   Stephen Goranson
• Cut one's name   Dan Goncharoff
• Cut one's name   Joel S. Berson
• Cut one's name   Victor Steinbok
• Cut one's name   Garson O'Toole
• Cut one's name   Laurence Horn
• Cut one's name   Joel S. Berson
• Cut one's name   Joel S. Berson
• Despite the Kipling comeback,   Wilson Gray
• Despite the Kipling comeback,   Joel S. Berson
• Despite the Kipling comeback,   Wilson Gray
• dodge Pompey   Stephen Goranson
• dodge Pompey   Joel S. Berson
• dodge Pompey   Dan Goncharoff
• dodge Pompey   Joel S. Berson
• Dothraki conlanger in the news   Jonathan Lighter
• Dothraki conlanger in the news   Wilson Gray
• eargasm   Jonathan Lighter
• eargasm   Ben Zimmer
• eargasm   Arnold Zwicky
• eargasm   Victor Steinbok
• eargasm   Laurence Horn
• eargasm   Wilson Gray
• Einstein on bees, revisited   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• Einstein on bees, revisited   Garson O'Toole
• excrescent 's   Arnold Zwicky
• explicit = 'offensive to decency'   Jonathan Lighter
• fair dinkum?   Stephen Goranson
• fair dinkum? (part 2 Dinkum Smith etc.)   Stephen Goranson
• fair dinkum? (part 2 Dinkum Smith etc.)   George Thompson
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Jonathan Lighter
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Wilson Gray
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Douglas G. Wilson
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Garson O'Toole
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Jonathan Lighter
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Garson O'Toole
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Jonathan Lighter
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Garson O'Toole
• famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices   Garson O'Toole
• Flushtrated   Neal Whitman
• Fred Shapiro does good (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• From People mag:   Wilson Gray
• From People mag:   Jonathan Lighter
• From the BBC News Magazine:   Wilson Gray
• From the BBC News Magazine:   Victor Steinbok
• From the BBC News Magazine:   Laurence Horn
• From the BBC News Magazine:   Wilson Gray
• From the site, Extreme Tech:   Wilson Gray
• From the site, Extreme Tech:   Neal Whitman
• future classic quote (but not QOTY)   Jonathan Lighter
• FW: Supreme Court's Earl Warren reads the sports pages first -- is this from Yale's William Lyon Phelps?   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• FW: Supreme Court's Earl Warren reads the sports pages first -- is this from Yale's William Lyon Phelps?   Garson O'Toole
• Fwd: [VAR-L] Alan Duncan issues memo at DFID banning jargon words such as 'going forward'   Arnold Zwicky
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Joel S. Berson
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Alice Faber
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Wilson Gray
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Joel S. Berson
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Paul Johnston
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Robert Henderson
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Dan Nussbaum
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Victor Steinbok
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Eric Nielsen
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Joel S. Berson
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   Chris Waigl
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my   W Brewer
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• galoshes and rubbers and overshoes, oh my (UNCLASSIFIED)   Victor Steinbok
• GBooks and "verklempt" before 1992   Joel S. Berson
• GBooks and "verklempt" before 1992   Garson O'Toole
• GBooks and "verklempt" before 1992   Joel S. Berson
• GBooks and "verklempt" before 1992   Ben Zimmer
• go-to = 'a place to go'   Jonathan Lighter
• Heard on "In Prison Abroad," both in ons sentence: _in_ vs. _out_   Wilson Gray
• Heard on ESPN   Victor Steinbok
• Heard on ESPN   Victor Steinbok
• Heard on ESPN   Wilson Gray
• Heard on ESPN   Alice Faber
• Heard on ESPN   Garson O'Toole
• Heard on ESPN   Garson O'Toole
• Heard on ESPN   Victor Steinbok
• Heard on ESPN   Garson O'Toole
• Heard on The Doctors: _peek-and-shriek_   Wilson Gray
• home musings   Victor Steinbok
• Idiom: ducks in a row (1889)   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: ducks in a row (1889)   Benjamin Barrett
• Idiom: ducks in a row (1889)   Benjamin Barrett
• Idiom: ducks in a row (1889)   Garson O'Toole
• Idiom: ducks in a row (1889)   Garson O'Toole
• in awe = 'aghast'   Jonathan Lighter
• in awe = 'aghast'   Laurence Horn
• Intimidating language   Jonathan Lighter
• invariant "be"   George Thompson
• invariant "be"   Wilson Gray
• invariant "be"   George Thompson
• invariant "be"   Joel S. Berson
• invariant "be"   George Thompson
• invariant "be"   Wilson Gray
• IPA converter - modilino   Tom Zurinskas
• IPA converter - modilino   Neal Whitman
• IPA converter - modilino   Tom Zurinskas
• IPA converter - modilino   W Brewer
• Jargon peeving - Forbes style   Victor Steinbok
• Jargon peeving - Forbes style   Victor Steinbok
• Jargon peeving - Forbes style   Victor Steinbok
• kibosh, in another London broadside   Stephen Goranson
• Kickstartup, carrotmob, cowpooling - Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum   Garson O'Toole
• Kombucha   Benjamin Barrett
• Kombucha   Douglas G. Wilson
• Kombucha   Benjamin Barrett
• Marx Brothers (Chico and Groucho) meretricious wordplay in 1930 or 1933   Garson O'Toole
• mead quote (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• mead quote (UNCLASSIFIED)   Jonathan Lighter
• mead quote (UNCLASSIFIED)   Garson O'Toole
• mead quote (UNCLASSIFIED)   Wilson Gray
• mead quote (UNCLASSIFIED)   Shapiro, Fred
• Medias   Benjamin Barrett
• Medias   Wilson Gray
• monumentous   Jonathan Lighter
• monumentous   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• monumentous   Joel S. Berson
• MORE CLUES   David Barnhart
• more on "inappropriate"   Jonathan Lighter
• More on "what's"   Victor Steinbok
• More on "what's" (was: Re: excrescent 's)   Laurence Horn
• More on "what's" (was: Re: excrescent 's)   Arnold Zwicky
• More on "what's" (was: Re: excrescent 's)   Laurence Horn
• More on "what's" (was: Re: excrescent 's)   Wilson Gray
• more on-air taboo avoidance and other goodies   Victor Steinbok
• More on _pier 6 brawl_   David Barnhart
• More on _pier 6 brawl_   George Thompson
• multi-year, multi-month, multiweek   Arnold Zwicky
• multi-year, multi-month, multiweek + Aussie (Australian dollar)   Victor Steinbok
• My papa he keeps three horses...   David Barnhart
• Nattering nabobs redux   Nancy Friedman
• Nattering nabobs redux   Garson O'Toole
• non-disclosure   Victor Steinbok
• non-disclosure   Joel S. Berson
• No subject   Robert Fiske
• o   PL
• Obscure physics words get sign language equivalents - physics-math - 22 June 2012 - New Scientist   Dan Goodman
• Obscure physics words get sign language equivalents - physics-math - 22 June 2012 - New Scientist   Alice Faber
• OED odds and ends   Victor Steinbok
• Old time radio clips   Tom Zurinskas
• On color-terms   Wilson Gray
• one-letter eggcorn?   James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
• on X porn   Arnold Zwicky
• on X porn   Charles C Doyle
• Oronyms   Tom Zurinskas
• Orwellian "coastal resilience"   Jonathan Lighter
• OT: Setback to autism research   Joel S. Berson
• Paraprosdokian: I had a lovely evening, but this wasn't it (disclaimed by Groucho)   Garson O'Toole
• PG-rated expletive   Dan Goncharoff
• pier ... brawl   David Barnhart
• pier ... brawl (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• Pier N brawl   Joel S. Berson
• Pier N brawl   Dan Goncharoff
• pivot   Jonathan Lighter
• pivot   Victor Steinbok
• pivot   Jonathan Lighter
• pivot   Joel S. Berson
• precursor of "as long as they spell my name right"?   Stephen Goranson
• Proverb: Curiosity killed the cat (possibly 1873)   Laurence Horn
• Proverb: Curiosity killed the cat (possibly 1873)   Charles C Doyle
• Q: Origin of "slimsy" = "flimsy, frail" (OED2, 1845)   Joel S. Berson
• Quip: Rowing: The human being was never intended to get his exercise sitting down and going backwards (1926)   Garson O'Toole
• Quotation: speech surely will return to a silent woman   Joel S. Berson
• Quote: Military Intelligence to him is a contradiction in terms (John Charteris 1931)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Military Intelligence to him is a contradiction in terms (John Charteris 1931)   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: Military Intelligence to him is a contradiction in terms (John Charteris 1931)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Military Intelligence to him is a contradiction in terms (John Charteris 1931)   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: Military Intelligence to him is a contradiction in terms (John Charteris 1931)   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement   Dan Goncharoff
• Quote: smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement   Jonathan Lighter
• Quote: smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement   Dan Goncharoff
• Quote: Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music   Garson O'Toole
• Quote: Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music   Jonathan Lighter
• regretful = 'regrettable'   Jonathan Lighter
• Revenge of the vagina   Joel S. Berson
• Revenge of the vagina   Victor Steinbok
• Revenge of the vagina   George Thompson
• screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'   Jonathan Lighter
• screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'   Dan Goncharoff
• screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'   Arnold Zwicky
• screed = 'a deliberately and usu. disagreeably one-sided account; a work of propaganda'   Jonathan Lighter
• Sears review comment   Victor Steinbok
• self-correction   Victor Steinbok
• sigh-anara Queen's English Society   Tom Zurinskas
• snozzberry, snozzberries and Roald Dahl's sense of humor   Garson O'Toole
• Stage of warfare   David Barnhart
• Stage of warfare   Jonathan Lighter
• Stage of warfare   Tom Zurinskas
• Stage of warfare   Victor Steinbok
• Stage of warfare   Jonathan Lighter
• Stage of warfare   Joel S. Berson
• Stage of warfare   Dan Goncharoff
• statistical jargon   Victor Steinbok
• statistical jargon   Amy West
• statistical jargon   Victor Steinbok
• statistical jargon (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• statistical jargon (UNCLASSIFIED)   Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
• talisman   Victor Steinbok
• teaching awe-dropping   Paul Johnston
• TechHive   Wilson Gray
• TechHive   Victor Steinbok
• TechHive   Jonathan Lighter
• toke n. 2 antedated (?) to 1961   Stephen Goranson
• too = 'either'   Jonathan Lighter
• too = 'either'   Wilson Gray
• too = 'either'   Joel S. Berson
• too = 'either'   Tom Zurinskas
• too = 'either'   Jim Parish
• too = 'either'   Jonathan Lighter
• too = 'either'   Laurence Horn
• too = 'either'   Jonathan Lighter
• too = 'either'   Laurence Horn
• too = 'either'   W Brewer
• too = 'either'   Benjamin Barrett
• too = 'either'   Jonathan Lighter
• too = 'either'   Victor Steinbok
• too = 'either'   Charles C Doyle
• too = 'either'   Joel S. Berson
• too = 'either'   Jonathan Lighter
• too = 'either'   Jonathan Lighter
• too = 'either'   Wilson Gray
• to parse   Wilson Gray
• to parse   Jonathan Lighter
• to parse   Laurence Horn
• Training for carpenters   Joel S. Berson
• Unraftable   Martin Kaminer
• Veep   Jonathan Lighter
• Veep   Laurence Horn
• Veep   Jonathan Lighter
• What's he diff?   David Barnhart
• Word: shadowban (2007)   Garson O'Toole
• Word: toyetic (probably coined by Bernard Loomis in 1977)   Garson O'Toole
• worldly = 'from far away in the world'   Jonathan Lighter
• WOTY's aborning   David Barnhart
• Youneverknow   Wilson Gray
• YouTube flame: "... destroying the _O Zone_ ..." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• YouTube flame: "... destroying the _O Zone_ ..." [NT]   Laurence Horn
• YouTube flame: "... destroying the _O Zone_ ..." [NT]   Wilson Gray
• YouTube flame: "... destroying the _O Zone_ ..." [NT]   Laurence Horn
• zero-sum game   Benjamin Barrett
• zero-sum game   Victor Steinbok
• zero-sum game   Benjamin Barrett
• zero-sum game   Victor Steinbok
• zero-sum game   Benjamin Barrett
• zero-sum game   Wilson Gray
• zero-sum game   Victor Steinbok
• zero-sum game   Jonathan Lighter
• “cat for to make kitten britches”   Michael Sheehan
• “cat for to make kitten britches”   Garson O'Toole
• “cat for to make kitten britches”   Garson O'Toole
• “cat for to make kitten britches”   Garson O'Toole
• “cat for to make kitten britches”   Jesse Sheidlower
• “cat for to make kitten britches”   Garson O'Toole

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