"looped in"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"In the loop" has been around for years meaning "informed about current
developments."

JL


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Wasn't there some reference to "nothing in the loop" during NBC's Olympic
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> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 4/19/2013 01:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >CNN promises to keep viewers "looped in" to the latest developments.
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> > Perhaps influenced by their using a 5-second delay on contemporaneous
> > (should I say "real-time"?) filmings?  (As I interpret their implied
> > reason for such a delay, they want to be able to bowdlerize gruesome
> > (obscene? blasphemous?) events such as a "blaze of glory".)
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