permatorium

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sun May 13 18:47:43 UTC 2012


At 5/13/2012 01:40 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>Checking Barry Popik's website is often a good idea:
>
>Entry from February 26, 2011
>Permitorium or Permatorium (permit + moratorium)

But he doesn't have it as a hair salon, whether or not attached to a
crem[e]atorium.

Joel


>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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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > 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:
> >
> >> 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:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 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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