[Ads-l] "defecto"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, I can hear the "Let's go, Brandon!" crowd claiming that Trump is
still our "President defecto."

JL

On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:09 AM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
wrote:

> From a message to SABR-L, which circulates among baseball enthusiasts:
> "there was chatter in the St. Louis papers as the season started that Edman
> was the defecto backup to DeJong at shortstop"
>
> The message as a whole was marked by the absence of frivolity, so I think
> this was not a joke.
>
> GAT
>
> --
> George A. Thompson
> 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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