End of ADS-L Digest - 18 Sep 1995 to 19 Sep 1995

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There are 41 messages totalling 920 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. ?Movie/T.V. dumb laugh ending (fwd)

 2. bilectal commercial

 3. Mouse/Mice=House/Hice (7)

 4. Pulitzer Prze (6)

 5. bizzing (3)

 6. irreg plurals

 7. budge

 8. add me to the discussion group

 9. Positive Anymore (3)

 10. Terminology of unexcused absences (5)

 11. tardys vs. tardies (3)

 12. plural of "tardy"

 13. no mishaps

 14. reasonably bizarre anymore! (2)

 15. ?Gordon Bennett & PEW litzer (2)

 16. SES in sociolinguistics

 17. A coinage worth keeping

 18. Going postal



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Date:  Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:10:33 -0500

From:  Daniel S Goodman <dsg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU>

Subject: ?Movie/T.V. dumb laugh ending (fwd)



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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:10:18 -0700 (PDT)

From: Kirsten Edwards <kirstedw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]rain.kcls.lib.wa.us>

To: Stumpers List <stumpers-list[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CRF.CUIS.EDU>

Subject: ?Movie/T.V. dumb laugh ending



Okay stumperites, here's one that seems pretty tough to me:



What, asks the client, is the stupid laugh everyone does at the end of nearly

every T.V. show/sit-com (and a few movies) at the very end? For example, in

Star Trek, Dr. McCoy makes some crack about Spock, crew chuckles,

end-of-show. He wonders, if, in scripts, they have a phrase for this,

such ask "Cut to the gerplax" or "finish with a gerplax" where gerplax,

of course is the stupid laugh everyone does &etc.?



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