[Ads-l] fudgies
George Thompson
george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Wed May 23 18:01:37 UTC 2018
>From an article in today's (Wednesday's) NY Times
“It used to be all college kids,” said Bob Benser Jr., who owns the Murdick’s
Fudge <https://www.originalmurdicksfudge.com/> shops on Mackinac Island,
between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The Murdick family first
opened a candy shop in 1887, starting a confection craze that is so much a
part of the culture here that summer tourists are called fudgies.
<https://www.postcrescent.com/story/life/2017/06/17/search-fudge-mackinac-island/393099001/>
A version of this article appears in print on May 23, 2018, on Page D8 of
the New York edition with the headline: Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?
Not in DARE (the print version) nor OED.
GAT
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George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.
But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems. Boston, 1827, p. 112
The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool. (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-
gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851
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