[Ads-l] No nuthins

[Jonathan Lighter]

IMDb, 2012:

"Directors and crew blatantly cut corners, hire no nothing actors and
extras to portray military roles."

JL

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: No nuthins
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> > On Jan 30, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> =
> wrote:
> >=20
> > 2016 Ryan Lizza, in _New Yorker_ (Feb. 1) 45: Sarah Palin, the =
> pre-Trump
> > embodiment of populist no-nothingism in the Republican party.
> >=20
> > JL
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> Well, I sort of know what the Know-Nothing Party stood for, and arguably =
> Palin and Trump are both heirs to that grand tradition.  But the =
> No-Nothing Party would seem to suggest the Nihilists (Bakunin? Bazarov?  =
> Dada? Derrida?) if you're into negative concord--or their opponents =
> (anyone who believes in Something), especially those who are also =
> grammatical prescriptivists.  Strange bedfellows all around. =20
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> LH=
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