permatorium

[Garson O'Toole]

Checking Barry Popik's website is often a good idea:

Entry from February 26, 2011
Permitorium or Permatorium (permit + moratorium)

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/permitorium_permit_moratorium/

Barry Popik said:
> Also, "kibbeh" and "Turkish pizza" and such are in the ADS-L
> archives. Tons of stuff from hours at the NYPL reading every
> exotic book I could find.

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: permatorium
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> Slogan:
> Where Your Permanent Is REALLY a Permanent
>
> LH
>
> On May 12, 2012, at 6:49 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
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>> I thought, it might be the place to get your very /last/ haircut.
>>
>> VS-)
>>
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>>>
>>> permatorium:  A hair salon where one can get styled like Tom Brady.
>>>
>>> Joel
>>>
>>> At 5/12/2012 03:22 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>>> From WaPo fact-checker:
>>>>
>>>> http://goo.gl/GKsFR
>>>>> The president's opponents have accused him of stunting the economic
>>>>> recovery with a barrage of harmful new regulations ranging from a
>>>>> supposed "permatorium" on offshore oil drilling to stricter rules
>>>>> aimed at reducing farm dust -- neither of which has actually taken
>>>>> effect during Obama's term.
>>>>
>>>> The same context has seen the metaphorical use of "tsunami" by Rep.
>>>> Issa. (as in "regulatory tsunami") It's not a singular incident, but
>>>> it's still somewhat unusual.
>>>>
>>>> VS-)
>>>
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