[Ads-l] IRL

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 21 12:12:45 UTC 2019


> the Duke of IRL

Up high,Larry!

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 7:53 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Who will be the Duke of IRL?
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 5:06 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 04:39:42PM -0500, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > 'In real life':
> > >
> > > 2019
> > >
> >
> https://medium.com/@davescheirer/midway-movie-live-action-from-1976-versus-cgi-from-2019-3c6a17abe506
> > >
> > > IRL (in real life), no Avengers flew from carriers during the Battle of
> > > Midway.  -
> > >
> > > 2004 in UrbanD.
> >
> > And 1988 in OED:
> >
> > 1988 _Hershey Fonts_ in _comp.sources.wanted_ (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Jan.
> > INTERNET: msn at bikini.cis.ufl.edu I.R.L. Michael S. Newsome. 3632 NW 4th
> > Pl. [etc.].
> >
> > Antedating from Garson or Ben in 3, 2, 1....
> >
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-Wilson
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