End of ADS-L Digest - 12 May 1998 to 13 May 1998
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<br>There are 12 messages totalling 573 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Chinagate; Viagra; Memorial Day
<br>  2. albeit - a conjunction, yet it's a clause (2)
<br>  3. Sri Lankan Taxi drivers
<br>  4. Paddy wagon query (2)
<br>  5. scumbag
<br>  6. Urgent: CBS News needs help for a spell
<br>  7. ADS-L Archive Search
<br>  8. Law/Principle of Least Effort
<br>  9. New Web based chat server.
<br> 10. what had happen was....
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<br>Date:    Thu, 21 May 1998 03:47:53 EDT
<br>From:    Bapopik <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: Chinagate; Viagra; Memorial Day
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<br>CHINAGATE
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<br>     The New York Post is calling the alleged sale of high technology to China
<br>for campaign cash as "Chinagate."  No surprise there.
<br>     It wasn't always a "-gate."  This is from THE WEEKLY REGISTER (NILES), 21
<br>September 1811, pg. 33 (front page), col. 1:
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<br>     _President and Little Belt._
<br>[The affair (every thing is an "affair" now-a-days) of the _President_ and
<br>_Little Belt_...]
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<br>VIAGRA
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<br>     In tonight's (Wednesday) TONIGHT SHOW with Jay Leno, Leno finally
<br>corrected himself:  "It's Vi-AG-ra, isn't it?  Like Ni-AG-ra."
<br>     Surely he means "Niagara."
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<br>MEMORIAL DAY
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<br>     The DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS (pg. 1044) has 1869 for "Memorial Day."
<br>     Worldcat has:
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<br>1860--THE MEMORIAL DAY:  A SERMON PREACHED IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, IN
<br>PUTNAM, OHIO, JANUARY 1st, 1860 by Addison Kingsbury (1800-1892).
<br>1868--COLLECTION OF MATERIALS RELATING TO CELEBRATIONS OF MEMORIAL DAY IN
<br>CONCORD, MASS., Memorial Day (handbill)(1868).
<br>1868--MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30, 1868 (broadside), Brunswick? Me.?, the first line
<br>"O Lord of Hosts!  Almighty King!" is by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).
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<br>MISC.
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<br>     On "scumbag," "douchebag," "slimebag," "slimeball," "sleazebag," and
<br>"sleazeball," I forgot to add "dirtbag" and "dirtball"--both of which are in
<br>the RHHDAS (but not before 1941).  If Read's CLASSIC AMERICAN GRAFFITI doesn't
<br>record these terms on bathroom walls in the late 1920s, it's time to hit the
<br>1930s material.
<br>     On "You're the Atop," I wrote Noel Coward when I meant to say Cole
<br>Porter....Louis Cohen, the "next Bobby Fischer"  I defeated in the New York
<br>State Junior High School Chess Championship in the late 1970s, won yesterday's
<br>JEOPARDY! and will be on again today.  I think it's the same guy.  He said
<br>he's a language teacher, which caused Alex Trebek to remark:  "You know what
<br>they call someone who speaks one language, don't you?  An American."
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