Tap That

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

At Yale you are "tapped" when you are asked to join a secret society.
There is a "tap night" and historically there has been a "tap day".
Below is link to an article in the Yale Daily News. Of course, "tap"
is the exoteric term used in the open literature, and it may differ
from the esoteric term(s) used within a secret group.

Article: The evolution of Tap Night
Authors: Nicolas Niarchos and Courtney Pannell
Date: April 17, 2009
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2009/04/17/the-evolution-of-tap-night/


On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Benjamin Torbert <btorbert at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure, in 2008 when Senator McCain named Governor Palin as his,
> um, ticket-mate, CNN and other venues ran the wildly inappropriate
> headline, "McCain taps Palin for Vice President."
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> I was like, are we actually doing this?
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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From Wikipedia:
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>> In collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering to tap a card means
>> to use it so that it cannot be used again in that player's turn.[1] The
>> visual indication of the tapped status is represented by turning the card
>> 90 degrees to the right.
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>> DanG
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>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Guy Letourneau <guy1656 at opusnet.com>
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>> > Regarding the below, I've seen gamer t-shirts with =22I'd tap =
>> > that=22placed below a graphic illustration of rotating a playing card
>> from
>> > a vertical to a horizontal position...
>> > -GLL
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>> > From:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 victor steinbok <aardvark66=40GMAIL.COM>
>> > Subject: Re: =22I'd tap that=22I doubt very much it's a
>> misunderstanding. =
>> > If anything, they're kiting on
>> > the =22usual=22 meaning.VS-)
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>> > On Oct 1, 2014 6:35 PM, =22Dan Goncharoff=22 <thegonch=40gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > > Is this a new use of the word =22tap=22?> Their new ad campaign is
>> based
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>> > on misunderstanding the sexual use of
>> > =22tap=22: http://www.zipcar.com/idtapthat
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