[Ads-l] The first "flying saucers"

[George Thompson]

Very cool!

GAT

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:14 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namely, clay pigeons:
>
> 1890 Dayton [O.] Herald (Feb. 19) 4:  Let us hope that those uninterested
> will pick up a gun and try hitting a flying saucer.
>
> 1896 Omaha Daily Bee (Apr. 22) 7: She shatters the flying saucers
> with...neatness and dispatch.
>
> 1898  The Sun (Baltimore) (Oct. 12) 8: A strong wind from the southwest
> made marksmanship at the flying saucers anything but an easy task.
>
> 1915 Salt Lake Herald-Republican (Apr. 4) (Sports Sec.) [unp.]: The sudden,
> freaky turns that these flying saucers take are most disconcerting.
>
> 1944 The Landmark (White River Junction, Vt.) (Mar. 2) 7: Flying saucers
> are knocking Axis airplanes out of the sky.
>
> 1946 Pittsburgh Press (Sept. 1) 11 : There is no apparent effort as he
> powders the flying saucers.
>
>
> JL
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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-- 
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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