End of ADS-L Digest - 14 Mar 1996 to 15 Mar 1996

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There are 6 messages totalling 224 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. "cobbed" etc. (2)

 2. 'going to'

 3. Clabber milk

 4. newspaper names (2)



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Date:  Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:52:21 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: "cobbed" etc.



Ron Butters wrote:



>I think Dennis and Seth are absolutely right about the connection of

>COBBED with "CORNHOLE". However, it is the case that COBBED and REAMED

>are a little different in semantic range from SCREWED--COBBED and REAMED

>can (for me) mean simply 'defeated badly': Duke was recently

>REAMED/COBBED (cf. CREAMED) by EMU at basketball, but they were not SCREWED.

>



I've always presumed creamed was short for cremated.



Seth