[Ads-l] waddle

[Jonathan Lighter]

I'm a Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto guy.

Phil was the greatest!  I even had his baseball card, with a facsimile of
his actual signature!

JL

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:36 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ol' Bull - uh, Bill - was quite a character! Or should that be, "quite
> _the_ character"?
>
> The Brits may have lost the War of the American Rebellion, but they've been
> doing unnecessarily well in the war of the dialectological miscellanea.
> Even BE has gone missing, after being seriously wounded.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Stern
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:56 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Er, Bill Stern?
> >
> > J "Whippersnapper" L
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:49 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Smith was a popular, widely syndicated sports columnist.
> > >
> > > Surely, an explanation of who Bill Stern was is not yet necessary!
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:58 AM Jonathan Lighter <
> > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2021 _New Yorker_ (Jan. 25) 4: A group of penguins in the water is
> > > called a
> > > > raft - on land, they become a waddle.
> > > >
> > > > OED has "raft" for aquatic birds from 1709, but no "waddle" of
> > anything.
> > > > How little know they of our native tongue!
> > > >
> > > > 1963 Red Smith, in _Philadelphia Inquirer_ (Jan. 18) 37: Mr. Lillis
> > > > imported a waddle of penguins who lined up at the clubhouse gate in
> > their
> > > > snappy thermal attire and were the first clients admitted.
> > > >
> > > > 2004  Richard Spilsbury and Louise Spilsbury _A Rookery of Penguins_
> > > > (Chicago: Heinemann) 29:  What is a waddle of penguins? Some people
> > call
> > > a
> > > > group of penguins a waddle, because of the way they walk.
> > > >
> > > > Smith was a popular, widely syndicated sports columnist. Many zoo
> > people
> > > > must have read this column.
> > > >
> > > > JL
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> > > truth."
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> --
> - Wilson
> -----
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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