Date:  Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:29:22 -0500
From:  Jesse T Sheidlower <jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PANIX.COM>
Subject: Garbage In, Garbage Out (fwd)

Barry Popik has asked me to forward this message to ADS-L
about the expression "garbage in, garbage out." (This is, in
fact, found in RHHDAS under "GIGO"; we consider the abbreviation,
but not the proverbial expression, to be slang, but our
earliest is the 1964 cite from Oxford.)

Jesse Sheidlower
<jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]panix.com>

----------------- Begin forwarded message from Barry Popik ------------
>
> The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs has 1964. It's not in RHHDAS.
>
> I found it (with an illustration) on page 28, Aerospace Accident and
> Maintenance Review, May 1961.
>
> --Barry
> (who went to the dentist again and is now in pain, causing him to be an
> antidentite)