[Ads-l] what's the latest [,] dope/poop/skinny?

[Jonathan Lighter]

"The poop" in this sense seems to have originated at West Point.

1909 _Howitzer_  (U.S.M.A.) 256: Poop, v. To quote verbatim.

1911 Ibid. 227: Poop, v. To memorize blindly. To project printed page to
one's brain where it may be read off verbatim.  Ibid. 228: Speck, n.
...Anything to be memorized. ( See _Poop_.)

1925 Ibid. 298: _Poop_: 'Tis hard of this to give a definition full,/ For
sometimes it means information, at other times just "Bull."  _Poop Sheet_
- Dope sheet to be memorized or consulted.

The editor found no exx. of _poop_ 'facts, etc.' during WW1.


JL



On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:42 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Skinnay Ennis"
>
>  That was/is my theory too.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:34 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> An interesting discussion, far superior to the usual TI&E, usually
>> referred
>> to as "poop for the troops."
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 8:47 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > These three can all sometimes mean, more or less, information.
>> > Though "red mike" apparently became specialized slang in the Naval
>> > Academy, the following might could be a case of USNA slang influencing a
>> > later (broadening?) development.
>> >
>> > The 1940 Lucky Bag yearbook uses "skinny" five times.
>> >
>> > https://archive.org/details/luckybag1940unse<
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__archive.org_details_luckybag1940unse&d=DwMFAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=uUVa-8oDL2EzfbuMuowoUadHHcJ7pjul6iFkS5Pd--8&m=qwwcnEh0SDhYkAO4qMBwW4xEtiaPWhXfdFqgH4eOSPY&s=hY4Vm5TQcZdx81ot3kJxhw4s2Byuj49C8crkmJb1TDU&e=
>> > >
>> >
>> > The mid-right photo caption is about solving a skinny problem, at a
>> desk,
>> > in a classroom, with a slide rule in his pocket..
>> >
>> > https://archive.org/details/luckybag1940unse<
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__archive.org_details_luckybag1940unse&d=DwMFAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=uUVa-8oDL2EzfbuMuowoUadHHcJ7pjul6iFkS5Pd--8&m=qwwcnEh0SDhYkAO4qMBwW4xEtiaPWhXfdFqgH4eOSPY&s=hY4Vm5TQcZdx81ot3kJxhw4s2Byuj49C8crkmJb1TDU&e=
>> > >
>> >
>> > The Wm. Game text has skinny as an academic department.
>> >
>> > https://archive.org/details/luckybag1940unse<
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__archive.org_details_luckybag1940unse&d=DwMFAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=uUVa-8oDL2EzfbuMuowoUadHHcJ7pjul6iFkS5Pd--8&m=qwwcnEh0SDhYkAO4qMBwW4xEtiaPWhXfdFqgH4eOSPY&s=hY4Vm5TQcZdx81ot3kJxhw4s2Byuj49C8crkmJb1TDU&e=
>> > >
>> >
>> > "skinny kept him from athletics," apparently meaning low grades
>> prevented
>> > him from participating in (varsity?) athletics.
>> >
>> > https://archive.org/details/luckybag1940unse<
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__archive.org_details_luckybag1940unse&d=DwMFAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=uUVa-8oDL2EzfbuMuowoUadHHcJ7pjul6iFkS5Pd--8&m=qwwcnEh0SDhYkAO4qMBwW4xEtiaPWhXfdFqgH4eOSPY&s=hY4Vm5TQcZdx81ot3kJxhw4s2Byuj49C8crkmJb1TDU&e=
>> > >
>> >
>> > His math and skinny were a breeze because of earlier college courses, in
>> > contrast to other academic (humanities, bull and dago) departments.
>> >
>> > https://archive.org/details/luckybag1940unse<
>> >
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__archive.org_details_luckybag1940unse&d=DwMFAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=uUVa-8oDL2EzfbuMuowoUadHHcJ7pjul6iFkS5Pd--8&m=qwwcnEh0SDhYkAO4qMBwW4xEtiaPWhXfdFqgH4eOSPY&s=hY4Vm5TQcZdx81ot3kJxhw4s2Byuj49C8crkmJb1TDU&e=
>> > >
>> >
>> > The hop (dance) was the end of math and skinny--so a change of pace.
>> >
>> >
>> > "Skinny" here may mean hard sciences (Physics et sim).
>> >
>> >
>> > Stephen Goranson
>> >
>> > http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
>> >
>> >
>> >
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