[Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"

[Martin Schneider]

Seems a little unfair, when the chart speaks so clearly. Sure, you found 2
examples, one of them from six months earlier.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM Rich Lowenthal <
000018596069864c-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> 2000 is pretty late for "that ship has sailed."
>
> From Lawrence J. White, "The S&L Debacle: Public Policy Lessons for Bank
> and Thrift Regulation" (1991), p. 250, note 41:
>
> "Separate regulatory agencies would give more room for creativity and
> independent development of new approaches to regulatory problems; see
> Benston (1984) and Fischel, Rosenfeld, and Stillman (1987). The same
> argument could be made for maintaining a separate insurance fund for
> thrifts; alas, that ship has sailed and is unlikely to return."
>
> And the New York Times, July 18, 1999:
>
> "Two years after Art Modell moved his team from Cleveland to Baltimore,
> one of the most controversial acts in the history of the National
> Football League, he was asked if he felt his chances of being elected to
> the Hall of Fame had evaporated. ''I think that ship has sailed,'' he
> said."
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From "Martin Schneider"
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> Date 7/27/2026 11:39:17 PM
> Subject "that ship has sailed"
>
> >Watching For All Mankind, the Apple TV series about, well, the race to the
> >moon, and a character says "That ship has sailed." The year is 1970.
> >
> >Sounded out of time to me, but I was shocked by how much. Google NGR says
> >2000 and after only! What?
> >
> >Green's doesn't have anything on it. What do you suppose the inciting
> >incident was on that one?
> >
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