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Starting: Mon Jul 2 16:52:01 UTC 2018
Ending: Wed Aug 1 01:32:17 UTC 2018
Messages: 281

• [Ads-l] "spherical cow" antedated (?) 1970   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] trifecta = three related items   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] "Come down, come down from your ivory tower"   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 4 Jul 2018 to 5 Jul 2018 (#2018-178)   Shawnee Moon
• [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Neal Whitman
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   David Wilton
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   David Wilton
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] What is a NOVEL?   Peter Reitan
• [Ads-l] "Write Drunk, Edit Sober"   Shapiro, Fred
  • [Ads-l] "Write Drunk, Edit Sober"   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] "Write Drunk, Edit Sober"   Shapiro, Fred
• [Ads-l] "How would *you* _game-plan against_ France?"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "How would *you* _game-plan against_ France?"   Mailbox
    • [Ads-l] "How would *you* _game-plan against_ France?"   Neal Whitman
      • [Ads-l] "How would *you* _game-plan against_ France?"   Arnold M. Zwicky
• [Ads-l] _monsters_ :: behaves like a monster (badly)?   Andy Bach
  • [Ads-l] _monsters_ :: behaves like a monster (badly)?   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] Fwd: Grinders, Subs, and Spuckies | Sandwich Names of New England - New England Today   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] QOTY 1958   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] QOTY 1958   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] QOTY 1958   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] QOTY 1958   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] QOTY 1958   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Kibosh = kurbash (whip) in ca. 1830 Penal Servitude   Douglas G. Wilson
  • [Ads-l] Kibosh = kurbash (whip) in ca. 1830 Penal Servitude   Douglas G. Wilson
• [Ads-l] Schnatter   victor steinbok
  • [Ads-l] Schnatter   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Chris Waigl
    • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Barretts Mail
    • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Arnold M. Zwicky
      • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   George Thompson
      • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] to troll =? take the mickey   Andy Bach
• [Ads-l] Phrase: take the mickey out of (May 28, 1923; antedates OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Phrase: take the mickey out of (May 28, 1923; antedates OED)   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] Phrase: take the mickey out of (May 28, 1923; antedates OED)   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] Phrase: take the mickey out of (May 28, 1923; antedates OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Phrase: take the mickey out of (May 28, 1923; antedates OED)   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Most popular word   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Most popular word   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Phrase: to take a mike out (April 6, 1895); taking the 'mike' out of (July 20, 1901); to take a "mike" out (March 14, 1922)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Phrase: to take a mike out (April 6, 1895); taking the 'mike' out of (July 20, 1901); to take a "mike" out (March 14, 1922)   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
    • [Ads-l] Phrase: to take a mike out (April 6, 1895); taking the 'mike' out of (July 20, 1901); to take a "mike" out (March 14, 1922)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Phrase: to take a mike out (April 6, 1895); taking the 'mike' out of (July 20, 1901); to take a "mike" out (March 14, 1922)   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Phrase: to take a mike out (April 6, 1895); taking the 'mike' out of (July 20, 1901); to take a "mike" out (March 14, 1922)   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• [Ads-l] Peter Strzok   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Peter Strzok   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] Peter Strzok   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] A positive _anymore_ in Britspeak?   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] A positive _anymore_ in Britspeak?   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] A positive _anymore_ in Britspeak?   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] _swell foop_ 1941   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] TR and FDR and JFK, etc.   David K. Barnhart
  • [Ads-l] TR and FDR and JFK, etc.   Stephen Goranson
    • [Ads-l] TR and FDR and JFK, etc.   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] WOTD   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] WOTD   Dennis During
  • [Ads-l] WOTD   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Swiss steak   Arnold M. Zwicky
  • [Ads-l] Swiss steak   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Swiss steak   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Swiss steak   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   Tom Zurinskas
  • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
    • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
    • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   James A. Landau
    • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] tepee or teepee or tipi   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Open Library searchable   Dan Goncharoff
• [Ads-l] old maiden   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] old maiden   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] persona - a representative target profile used in marketing   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to higher_ "to raise"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to higher_ "to raise"   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to higher_ "to raise"   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to higher_ "to raise"   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to higher_ "to raise"   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Facebookery: _to higher_ "to raise"   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] rain (crypto) (Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue))   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
  • [Ads-l] Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Stephen Goranson
  • [Ads-l] Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   Peter Reitan
    • [Ads-l] Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue)   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] fiat (WAS Re: Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue))   Barretts Mail
      • [Ads-l] fiat (WAS Re: Antedating rainmaker WAS Re: rain = clients (that bring in revenue))   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] another Swiss steak chapter   Arnold M. Zwicky
• [Ads-l] Facebookery: Pennsylvania conservative writes   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Facebookery: Pennsylvania conservative writes   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] Facebookery: Pennsylvania conservative writes   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Facebookery: Pennsylvania conservative writes   Michael Everson
    • [Ads-l] Facebookery: Pennsylvania conservative writes   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] I did not know that   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] I did not know that   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] officer   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] officer   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] officer   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] officer   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] officer   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] officer   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] officer   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "I wasn't taking him home,   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Charles C Doyle
  • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Margaret Winters
      • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Margaret Lee
      • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   W Brewer
      • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
    • [Ads-l] "insane" as a compliment   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] ADJ + of = a + ADJ   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] ADJ + of = a + ADJ   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
    • [Ads-l] ADJ + of = a + ADJ   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] ADJ + of = a + ADJ   Gordon, Matthew J.
  • [Ads-l] ADJ + of = a + ADJ   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] ADJ + of = a + ADJ   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Bumper sticker: religious, linguistic, & funny*   Mark Mandel
• [Ads-l] adventurist   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] adventurist   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] adventurist   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] adventurist   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] adventurist   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] snub   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] viscera   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] viscera   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] viscera   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Request article in Redbook circa 1945   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Request article in Redbook circa 1945   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] nefferous   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Among the travails of Amazon packagers,   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] More fron Nekkid and Afred   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Coordinate Noun Phrase Constraint violated on Facebook   Geoffrey Nathan
  • [Ads-l] Coordinate Noun Phrase Constraint violated on Facebook   Herb Stahlke
    • [Ads-l] Coordinate Noun Phrase Constraint violated on Facebook   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Oops   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Oops   Herb Stahlke
      • [Ads-l] Oops   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] Oops   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Coordinate Noun Phrase Constraint violated on Facebook   Arnold M. Zwicky
      • [Ads-l] Coordinate Noun Phrase Constraint violated on Facebook   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Coordinate STRUCTURE Constraint violated on Facebook   Geoffrey Nathan
  • [Ads-l] Coordinate STRUCTURE Constraint violated on Facebook   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Coordinate STRUCTURE Constraint violated on Facebook   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] Dialect-related piece in Slate   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Dialect-related piece in Slate   Margaret Winters
  • [Ads-l] Dialect-related piece in Slate   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] theybies   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] theybies   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] landblubber   James A. Landau
  • [Ads-l] landblubber   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] landblubber   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] landblubber   Barretts Mail
  • [Ads-l] landblubber   James A. Landau
    • [Ads-l] landblubber   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] landblubber   Andy Bach
• [Ads-l] Antedating "technothriller"   Bill Mullins
• [Ads-l] Request help with Russian passage in ABC book by Leo Tolstoy   ADSGarson O'Toole
  • [Ads-l] Request help with Russian passage in ABC book by Leo Tolstoy   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
  • [Ads-l] Request help with Russian passage in ABC book by Leo Tolstoy   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
    • [Ads-l] Request help with Russian passage in ABC book by Leo Tolstoy   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] "Hush money" [Antedating to 1692]   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
• [Ads-l] creatives   Mark Mandel
  • [Ads-l] creatives   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] creatives   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] creatives   Marc Sacks
      • [Ads-l] creatives   Galen Buttitta
      • [Ads-l] creatives   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] creatives   David Wilton
      • [Ads-l] creatives   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] creatives   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] creatives   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] "in a jiffy" 1765   Stephen Goranson
• [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
  • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Galen Buttitta
    • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Baker, John
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   dwhause
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   ADSGarson O'Toole
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Dave Hause
  • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Bonnie Taylor-Blake
    • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Ben Zimmer
  • [Ads-l] Media request (Business Insider) about language and nature   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
• [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Chris Waigl
  • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Neal Whitman
  • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   GEOFFREY NUNBERG
    • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Stephen Goranson
      • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] "... there's just one of them"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] Facebookery   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] Facebookery   Mark Mandel
    • [Ads-l] Facebookery   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] Facebookery   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] European Union [urine-peein' ...]   W Brewer
  • [Ads-l] European Union [urine-peein' ...]   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] European Union [urine-peein' ...]   W Brewer
• [Ads-l] RES: European Union [urine-peein' ...]   David Daniel
• [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Jonathan Lighter
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Mark Mandel
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] More Facebookery   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] bone breaking, flexing   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] Two tried and true QOTY candidates from the battlefront on trade   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] Two tried and true QOTY candidates from the battlefront on trade   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Talent   victor steinbok
  • [Ads-l] Talent   Alice Faber
    • [Ads-l] Talent   Dan Goncharoff
      • [Ads-l] Talent   Barretts Mail
• [Ads-l] "we ... _ourself_"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "we ... _ourself_"   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] "we ... _ourself_"   Wilson Gray
  • [Ads-l] "we ... _ourself_"   George Thompson
    • [Ads-l] "we ... _ourself_"   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] "we ... _ourself_"   Laurence Horn
• [Ads-l] QOTY candidate   James A. Landau
• [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] QOTY   Wilson Gray
    • [Ads-l] QOTY   Jonathan Lighter
    • [Ads-l] QOTY   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] QOTY   Wilson Gray
      • [Ads-l] QOTY   Andy Bach
• [Ads-l] fuck ton   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] fuck ton   Ben Zimmer
• [Ads-l] curate   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] curate   Dennis During
    • [Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: curate   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
    • [Ads-l] curate   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] curate   Ben Zimmer
      • [Ads-l] curate   Andy Bach
      • [Ads-l] curate   Laurence Horn
    • [Ads-l] Romney Quote   David Daniel
• [Ads-l] OT: _Babysitterin_   Wilson Gray
• [Ads-l] A puzzle for prescriptivists   Laurence Horn
  • [Ads-l] A puzzle for prescriptivists   Ben Zimmer
    • [Ads-l] A puzzle for prescriptivists   ADSGarson O'Toole
• [Ads-l] Crash Blossom OTD   Jonathan Lighter
  • [Ads-l] Crash Blossom OTD   Jordan Smith
  • [Ads-l] Crash Blossom OTD   Andy Bach
    • [Ads-l] Crash Blossom OTD   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] multiphrenia, -phrenic   Jonathan Lighter
• [Ads-l] Hawaiian "poke"   MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)
• [Ads-l] 2019 conference CFP deadline is August 13   Grant Barrett
  • [Ads-l] Origin of term curate's egg   ADSGarson O'Toole
    • [Ads-l] Origin of term curate's egg   Laurence Horn
      • [Ads-l] Origin of term curate's egg   ADSGarson O'Toole

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