Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 10:12:39 -0400

From: "H. Stephen STRAIGHT (Binghamton University/SUNY)"

sstraigh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BINGSUNS.CC.BINGHAMTON.EDU

Subject: Re: Going postal



On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, Becky Howard, Department of Interdisciplinary

Writing, Colgate University wrote: Heard a new version of "going

ballistic" yesterday: "going postal"



What a coincidence! I heard it for the first time this week, from a

colleague. I didn't ask where he heard it, but Hamilton is just up the

road from here, and he lives in Ithaca, so it may be a phenom of the

Cornell-Binghamton-Hamilton triangle.



H Stephen STRAIGHT, Anthro/Ling/Lgs Across the Curric, Binghamton U (SUNY)

Box 6000, Binghamton NY 13902-6000 Tel: 607-777-2824 Fax: 607-777-2889