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Obamanomics n. The economic policies of the US government during the Obama administration.
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2007 Michael Learmonth Variety (Jan. 28) “Hail to the campaign coin”: Even financial cabler CNBC has a play, tagging a segment last week “Obamanomics.” 2007 Deborah Solomon @ Washington, D.C. Wall Street Journal (Apr. 24) “Seeking Clues to Obamanomics”: While Mr. Obama’s economic platform is still in its formative stages, interviews with his aides and a review of his congressional record and speeches suggest that Obamanomics may place him somewhat to the left of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, but to the right of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, another rival for the 2008 nomination. 2009 Ross Douthat The Atlantic (Jan. 30) “Deficits Don’t Matter?”: The key for Republicans [...] is to offer not only opposition to Obamanomics but alternatives as well—but those alternatives needs to sound like something other than the Bush agenda redux, or else there’s no point in offering them. 2009 Mark Skousen @ New York City Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts) (Mar. 4) “The market’s harsh verdict on Obamanomics”: What’s the future for Obamanomics? The stock market’s reaction doesn’t bode well. The Dow has fallen 18 percent since the last trading day of Bush’s term.
[1996 Paul Beatty The White Boy Shuffle: A Novel p. 5 @ (May 4, 2001): Unlike the typical bluesy earth folksy denim-overalls noble-in-the-face-of-cracker-racism aw shucks Pulitzer Prize-winning protagonist mojo black man, I am not the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son. ] 1998 Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Oct. 30) “‘History X’: Hate With a Passion” p. D01: The enabling mechanism of this conversion is our old friend from “50s liberal movies, the Magic Negro, as descended from Sidney Poitier in “The Defiant Ones.” His job is to prevent the white man from drowning in the bile of his own hatred. So in the racially intense caldron of a California prison, this film asks us to believe, a Magic Negro sees the good hidden in Derek and massages it gently to his surface. He even intercedes with the other black convicts to go easy on this white racist who has killed two young black men. File this one in the “as if” file. [1999 Adam Zachary Newton Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America (Aug. 13) “Literaturized Blacks and Jews; or Golems and Tar babies: reality and its shadows in John Edgar Wideman and Bernard Malamud” p. 116: “Angel Levine” introduces us to another flying Jew, without feathers, this time simply black, a magical black man, Alexander Levine, by name, but by narrational locution, “the Negro.”…Where does such a magical black man come from? From Hollywood? Burlesque? Folklore? ] 1999 Renee Graham Boston Globe (Massachusetts) (Dec. 7) “The Myth Of The ‘Magic Negro’” p. E5: I first heard a variation of this term after seeing the film “Clara’s Heart” with a friend about a decade ago. In this 1988 drama, Whoopi Goldberg played a Jamaican maid who transforms the lives of a well-to-do white Maryland family. The family is completely falling apart until Clara, with her honeyed patois and no-nonsense emotions, comes on the scene to set everything right. It’s a backbreakingly earnest and irritating film, which led my friend to utter a phrase I never forgot: “Damn, I can’t stand them “magic [Negro]” movies,” she hissed, although in the heat of the moment, she didn’t use the word “Negro.”…(A celluloid flip side of the Magic Negro is the White Savior, wherein a white crusader manages to save all the cowering black folks from really, really bad white people, as seen in such films as “Mississippi Burning” or “Ghosts of Mississippi.”) 2001 Cynthia Gentry indieWire (Mar. 13) “FESTIVALS: 11th Cinequest Makes Digital Official; Leacock and Spike Lee Tell It Like It Is”: Addressing issues ranging from Quentin Tarantino’s gratuitous use of racial epithets to the stereotype of the “mystical magical Negro” who appears in such films as “The Green Mile” and “The Legend of Bagger Vance,” Lee kept the house in stitches. Referring to the character of Bagger Vance, Lee commented, “They were hanging ’em high in Georgia then. If Bagger Vance really did have magical powers, wouldn’t he help out his brothers? Do you really think his number-one concern would be helping Matt Damon with his golf swing?” 2007 [Guest Blogger] AlterNet (Apr. 24) “Limbaugh plays “Barack The Magic Negro” on his show”: This is a head-shaker. Imus gets canned for calling some college women basketball players “nappy-headed hos” and yet Rush Limbaugh plays “Barack The Magic Negro” on his show and he is still on the air?
2004 [beardiemom] Conceptions By The Way (Sept. 7) “Death Becomes Her”: I sit here alone thinking to myself I will never be able to bear a child of my own.…I am constantly reminded of others who are fertile.…I know she didn’t mean to constantly talk about her baby but I really didn’t need to hear the details of how she can feel the movement and how she wasn’t feeling good because of the baby and yada..yada..yada. Geez…could she rub some more salt into the wound. I mean for crying out loud, I just lost two embabies here! 2006 [Jenn Corso, Jeff Corso] Corso Family Blog (Apr. 23) “ Our Little Embabies”: Our Little Embabies…Here they are…the newest members of the Corso family at 3 days old! 2007 [Will] Will they have his eyes? (Aug. 27) “Waiting by the phone…”: I went for another beta today and I’m waiting for the results. I also had an u/s and I could see one little embryo!! It was amazing to see. My RE said there could be another one or two that pops up since we’re still so early. I would love to have twins/triplets so we wouldn’t have to go through this IVF thing again, even though we have frozen snow-babies. We would just end up donating them to a couple who was unable to produce their own “embabies.” I 2007 [finallyamommy (Lynn Kimotsuki)] SheKnows Message Boards (Sept. 10) “Fertility Report”: Out of the 18 eggs retrieved, 15 were M2, 3 were M1 (can someone explain M2 vs M1? I know it has to due with the maturity level). And eve though they fertilized all 18, only 8 fertilized normally. Right now, they will let them grow and make a determination Wed morning whether or not they will do the PGD. Please pray…for our little embabies, will ya?
2004 [Bandit] PowWows.com Gathering (Dec. 6) “Toys for Tots Powwow - Dec. 4-5 - Gallup, NM”: How much snow did you get? I played safe, stayed home in southern AZ. Could say because of the In-law chasers ( cold, wind swept snow, etc). 2005 [rustywire] Usenet: alt.native (July 12) “a navajo warrior has gone away”: Navajo tea/blue corn meal and quiet nights/where is the sage/the mutton stew/in-law chasers/and cool rain. 2006 Mary Helen Madrid-Null Navajo Heat (Sept. 5) p. 424: Theresa felt warmed coming inside, away from the snowy, blowing spring storm.—Theresa overhead that the storm was an in-law chaser and giggled about that. It was the middle of the night but perhaps the son-in-law ran around right now or will run around in the early morning before work check-in, chasing after the chopping of wood and gathering the food and the water and the generator gas! 2006 [warrior] @ Diné Reservation, Arizona MySpace (Nov. 29) “Forcer Crew”: Up in G-Vill enjoying the blessing the GODS gave us this year SNOW!!!Hope it ain’t no IN-Law chaser! *2007 Discover Navajo (Mar. 28) “A Season of New Beginning”: Not surprisingly, there are times when it may snow in late April or early May—this in Navajo culture is called an “In-Law Chaser.” Navajo teaching says if an in-law has a weak mind, that individual will state he or she can’t work outside because it’s snowing. Moreover, an in-law may also be afraid to travel when it snows this time of the year. It is therefore, a form of teasing in-laws yet a way of building character. 2007 Johnny Rustywire AllIndianz.com Forum (Sept. 1) “In Law Chaser”: It was a warm summer day in June, and the sky was clear except for a small group of clouds running across the flatlands away from them, it was a quick moving summer storm. They could see the mist of rain falling to the ground below and yet all around it was clear sky. The Old man said, “There goes an in-law chaser!” The boy looked and did not know what he was talking about. “There must be someone wanting to visit somebody down there. Those kind of clouds that move fast like that they carry rain and wind.” 2007 Kathy Helms @ Window Rock Independent (Gallup, New Mexico) (Sept. 20) “Liquid of life”: Perhaps $714 million wouldn’t sound like a bad price if the politicians had to brave what the Navajos call an “in-law chaser” blowing snow into a virtual white-out at gusts up to 50 mph, just so their animals could drink—especially if they knew that the water they were hauling was going to freeze into ice before morning and they could count on the next day being a repeat performance.
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1972 Press-Telegram (Long Beach, California) (Sept. 15) “Autos For Sale” (in classifieds) p. C-16: ’67 PLYM Fury…belted tires, smogged, $895. 1985 Bob Hagin San Diego Union-Tribune (California) (Aug. 14) “Noisy Honda has him puzzled” p. E-3: When the car was smogged (in California), it showed no carbon monoxide and 65 parts per million in raw gas. 1996 Daily Aztec (California) (Feb. 26) “A student’s guide to buying a dependable used car” (in San Diego State University): Vehicles which were made before 1965 are not required to be smogged for registration. 2000 CNN.com (July 11) “There is gold in that smogmobile”: Arthur Garcia had been driving the same small, 22-year-old truck to work and back for the last 12 years. But when it came time in May to get his pickup “smogged,” Californian slang for an emissions test, his local garage told him that the vehicle would not pass, not even with a tune-up. 2004 Sharron Esler Sierra Sun (Truckee, California) (Apr. 16) “A trip to Baja with Bob”: Andrew had brought Bob to be smogged on Monday and this 25-year-old vehicle did not pass.
2004 Jonathan D. Silver Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) (May 27) “‘Ghost Bikes’ Are Grim Reminders” p. B-4: They appeared late Monday around Allegheny County, 14 bicycles painted a ghostly white and chained to poles with a cryptic sign: “Cyclist Struck Here.” The roadside memorials are the work of Ghost Bike Pittsburgh, a loosely organized group of bicycle enthusiasts seeking to improve the lot of bicyclists in a sometimes hostile world.…Its goal with the ghost bike project is simple: “to help Pittsburgh become a city where cyclists and motorists can coexist, to the benefit of both groups.” 2005 Kristin Dizon Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Washington) (Aug. 3) “‘Ghost bikes’ offer eerie reminder to share the road”: Bicycles painted stark white are chained to stop signs and telephone poles at nearly 40 locations around the city. An eerie visual reminder of the dangers cyclists face every day on local streets, these “ghost cycles” appeared at sites where someone reported a collision or dicey riding conditions. 2005 Amy Jenniges The Stranger (Seattle, Washington) (Aug. 4-10) “Crash Course”: There are few cars on the road at 1:15 a.m. as two bikers survey a slim metal utility pole at the ill-fated intersection, trying to figure out the most impressive way to attach a crumpled white bike to it with a three-foot length of chain and a chunky lock. The bike ends up suspended three feet off the ground, where it will surely grab plenty of attention during the upcoming commute, still hours away. “Pretty visible, huh? Kick ass,” one of the bikers says before hopping back into the car, off to install more “ghost cycles” throughout the city. 2007 John Mazor New York Post (Jan. 8) “Ride For Fallen ’06 Bicyclists”: Bicycle-safety advocates yesterday solemnly rode to each of the 14 spots around the city where cyclists were killed by cars in 2006, leaving behind white “ghost bikes” to memorialize the victims. 2007 Glenn Kauth Sun (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (Sept. 19) “Teen was well loved”: The latest incident came on the same day local cyclists had put up what’s called a ghost bike near the spot where 38-year-old William Korol died on Saturday in a hit-and run crash on Stony Plain Road. The ghost bikes, which are painted stark white, are meant as memorials to those killed riding Edmonton’s streets and as reminders for cyclists and drivers to mind each other on the roads.
1988 Jack Warner Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) (May 10) “Dell offers a good value for the dollar” p. D/02: The keyboard of the System 200 is not so bad that you can’t get used to it; it just doesn’t have that positive, long-throw touch of the IBM boards. 1989 [David A. Roth] Usenet: rec.music.makers (Sept. 20) “R-5 drumz”: Pads: they feel really solid. i like the short throw and stiff feel. as far as pads vs. sounds, the R-5 fares well. 2005 Jacques Steinberg New York Times (Mar. 23) “CNN Seeks New Ways to Battle Fox News”: It is known, in the lexicon of television news, as a throw or toss—an onscreen handoff from one host to another. And to Jonathan Klein, the new president of CNN, none is more critical than the throw from Larry King to Aaron Brown each weeknight just before 10. 2005 Jacques Steinberg New York Times (May 4) “‘Daily Show’ Personality Gets His Own Platform”: To that end, Comedy Central is considering ripping an actual page from the cable news networks it so often mocks, and having Mr. Stewart, at the end of his half-hour show, share a split-screen with Mr. Colbert, in what is known in the news business as a “throw” or “toss.” 2005 [Dan] Razorwind.org (May 8) “Shiny”: In addition, the keys use short-throw laptop-style scissor switches. My initial impression is that this seems to help avoid striking adjacent keys by accident. 2005 Rosa Salter Rodriguez Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) (Dec. 18) “Throw holiday gift-giving to the wind”: Those are only the shoppers who haven’t found throws as a solution to their holiday gift-finding woes. Perhaps because of the threat of a cold winter or a cold house as Hoosiers try to save on heat, decorator throw blankets are being shown just about everywhere. 2007 Jeff Franks @ New Orleans Reuters (Feb. 20) “Mardi Gras revelry brings New Orleans hope”: In the French Quarter, people tossed beads—“throws” in New Orleans lingo—from balconies overlooking Bourbon Street where partiers jostled through crowded streets with drinks in hand. 2007 Jason D. O'Grady ZDNet (Sept. 17) “The Apple Core: Review: Apple’s new keyboards (Verdict: Atrocious)”: The new keyboard lacks throw, more commonly referred to as key travel, which means that keys require less pressure to engage.
1938 Los Angeles Times (California) (June 19) “Junior Chamber Chooses Tulsa” (in Oakland) p. 10: The convention passed resolutions calling for standardization of traffic rules throughout the country and elimination of the third or “suicide lane” on highways. 1948 Modesto Bee (California) (Apr. 27) “Hits Three Lane Road”: Are we going to stand back and let the state build a three lane highway out of Maze Road with our money just to kill people? It will be only a suicide lane.…Who wants a three lane highway in these fast driving days? 1957 Independent Star-News (Pasadena, California) (Dec. 8) p. Auto Section-4: If a driver coming toward you in the other inside lane has to come to a sudden stop, his throwing his weight on the brake pedal will tend to make him twist his steering wheel so that his car veers into your lane. That’s what can make the inside lane on a busy highway the “suicide lane.” 1966 Daily Chronicle (Centralia-Chehalis, Washington) (Mar. 23) “Highway Couplet Unveiled” p. 1: Johnson suggest that a three-lane highway with a “holding-lane” be constructed.…Kozlovski commented on the three-lane road with passing lane as a dangerous situation that has been nicknamed elsewhere as “suicide lane.” 1986 David K. Secrest Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) (Dec. 5) “Businesses gearing up to fight DOT plan for Memorial Drive median” p. A/01: The project plans U-turns through median cuts at seven major intersections to replace the existing middle “suicide lane.” 1988 Jackie Walker @ Palm Harbor St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Sept. 14) “Letters” p. 2: It looks as though our Department of Transportation made a poor decision when it added a turning (or suicide) lane on Alternate 19 between State Road 584 and Alderman Road in Palm Harbor. At any given time you can see it being used as a passing lane for drivers in a hurry. 2007 Abby Brunks Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) (Sept. 17) “Fayette.Talk: The ‘suicide lane’”: If you happen to be one of those drivers that tools down Ga. 85 in the center of Fayetteville, there is a lane smack in the middle of the road I refer to as “the suicide lane.”…I believe its purpose is to provide motorists in both directions a lane in which to make a left turn or right turn, depending on which direction you are driving and by doing so, helping the flow of traffic.
[1932 O.F.M. Father Berard American Anthropologist (Oct.-Dec.) “Social Life of the Navajo Indians” vol. 34, no. 4, p. 713: The informant of the xójợ-djí, or blessing way…had little to say of additional peoples beyond the curt remark that the four clans would meet some relatives iợn the Navaho country.…Their sacred names in the xójợ-djí or blessing way.] [1970 Tony Hillerman The Blessing Way p. 102 @ (Feb. 15, 1990): He remembered the Blessing Way held when he and his cousins had left after their last furlough for Camp Pendleton and then for Saigon and Okinawa. He remembered the sweat bath and the Singer, even older than Sandoval, sprinkling his shoulders with the sacred pollen, and the old, cracked voice rising over the rhythm of the pot drum.] 1993 Anne L. Wright, Mark Bauer, Clarina Clark, Frank Morgan, Kenneth Begishe American Ethnologist (Nov.) “Cultural Interpretations and Intracultural Variability in Navajo Beliefs about Breastfeeding” vol. 20, no. 4, p. 784: During pregnancy, one cares for the child by eating right and, to appease the supernaturals, by avoiding prohibited behavior such as tying knots. In addition, one participates in proper rituals, including the Blessing Way, to assure an easy delivery, promote healing, and hasten the return to harmony. 1993 [Heather Madrone] Usenet: misc.kids (Nov. 11) “Re: Sweet Homebirth Story - 1 Year Later”: A Blessing Way is a ritual for the expectant mother. It is based on a Hopi tradition. A Blessing Way is a gathering of women who get together, tell birth stories, give the expectant mother emotional support and pamper her a bit (brush her hair, wash her feet, massage her). 1994 [Clare Bates Congdon] Usenet: alt.pagan (Mar. 30) “Re: Birthing Rituals”: A “blessing way.” While there was some talk about women only blessings, being a man, I’ve never been to one, and cannot comment. But the onout women only blessings, being a man, I’ve never been to one, and cannot comment. But the ones” that I have been too involve gathering the community around the pregnant woman, or newborn child and parents and everyone wishing (working a spell for) the child and mother what they want for the child, or wish for the child. It is wonderful, and I highly recommend it. It can be accompanied by hands on or other methods to direct the energy. You might want to create a sacred space first (however your tradition does this) and to raise energy after to seal the wishes or otherwise bind and release them. 1995 Adina Lebowitz Usenet: shamash.bridges (Nov. 16) “Re:Israel, new subscribers, etc.”: Anyway, I’m into doing/creating women’s ritual. I led my first Jewish “Blessing Way” ceremony on Sunday (a ritual for preparing a woman for birth popular among homebirthers and traditional cultures). 1996 [Colette] Usenet: misc.kids.pregnancy (July 1) “Re: Natural Childbirth was GREAT!!!”: My midwife does a blessing-way in which she rubs sacred blue cornmeal on my feet as a sign of supplication to the mother-to-be.
2001 Robin Lim After the Baby’s Birth: A Woman’s Way to Wellness p. 7: After the arrival of the new baby, the mother’s friends and family can activate this postpartum meal tree. It is simple to ask people to sign up at the blessingway or baby shower, before the actual birth. 2002 [Jennifer Rosenberg] Usenet: misc.kids.pregnancy (May 22) “Re: baby showers”: Consider a blessing-way type ceremony in lieu of a traditional shower. This can be adapted to just about every religion I can think of, as well as to people who are not religious. This gets away from the whole material gift thing and moves into more of a “generousity of spirit” realm. Especially when it is focused on positive thoughts and wishes for the coming birth and new baby, it is so special to treat a mom to something like this. 2003 [Nichol] Usenet: misc.kids.pregnancy (Jan. 27) “Re: Second pregnancy blues”: As for the gifts and things, I am feeling bit down that no one has mentioned a baby shower or blessing way or anything for this little one. I know we are having another boy which I think makes people assume we have everything we need. 2005 Kristin Madden, Liz Roberts Magickal Crafts (Oct. 30) p. 181: The Blessing Way has been adapted as an alternative baby shower for spiritual moms in recent years. This is much less commercial and much more personal, intimate way to honor the blessed event of a birth. During Blessing Way celebrations for moms-to-be, the expectant mother is really pampered by her loved ones. They may brush her hair or give her a foot massage. Poems are read and promises of aid during delivery and after the baby is borned are voiced. Candles are lit and symbolic gifts are presented. 2006 Google Groups: Friends of Valley Birthplace (Dec. 6) “You are Invited to A Blessing Way at Valley Birthplace”: On Thursday December 14th at 12:00 pm we will be holding a Blessing Way for our friend and midwife Lauren Hodges whose baby is due December 29th. A Blessing Way is a ceremony honoring change in a woman’s life. We would like to invite you to join us in sending Lauren well wishes as she prepares for the birth of her son.
1989 Jana Bommersbach Phoenix New Times (Arizona) (Apr. 19) “Charles Keating: What A Political Animas” p. 18: Just last week, Governor Rose Mofford signed a bill aimed at stopping developers like Keating from using a “rent a cow” tax dodge. 1991 Arizona Daily Star (Oct. 7) “Assessing the assessor After crusading for equity, the tax man goeth” p. 12A: He was among the first to decry dastardly rent-a-cow schemes, which allow land speculators to get millions of dollars of tax breaks intended for legitimate farmers and ranchers. 1992 Mary K. Reinhart @ Phoenix Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) (July 21) “Pima sues to recoup ‘rent-a-cow’ tax breaks”: The suit alleges that the investors have taken advantage of the so-called “rent-a-cow” provision that allows tax breaks on property used for agriculture or grazing. 1998 Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico) (Jan. 6) “King, Other Ranchers Losing Tax Break on Range Lands” p. 5: Publicity about the Kings’ small bill and allegations that some developers were abusing the system by running “rent-a-cow” operations drove the county to take a closer look at 2,000 properties receiving the tax break.
2007 Patrick Whittle Herald Tribune (Sarasota, Florida) (Feb. 11) “Tax break is a cash cow”: Deviating from one of those criteria should be enough to lose the tax break, says Steven Geller, state Senate Democrat leader who last year accused developers of calling “Hertz rent-a-cow” to acquire the tax break. 2007 Joel Stonington Aspen Times (Colorado) (Sept. 13) “Lawsuit challenges county appraisal”: Fite, however, stopped short of likening the case to those seen with “rent-a-cow ranchers,” a term used to describe owners of luxury homes who keep a small number of animals or cut hay on a corner of large parcels to take advantage of low commercial agriculture taxes.
2001 Steve Rosen (Knight Ridder Tribune Business News) (Jan. 28) “The Kansas City Star, Mo., Kids and Business Column”: She also owns Dream Wings, a nearly 2-year-old company she started with her mother that raises and sells butterflies for weddings and parties. That’s the “trep” side of Kassidy—teen-age slang for “entrepreneur.” 2001 Michael Wright Sunday Times (United Kingdom) (Aug. 26) “Keeping up with the new English”: Trep—Weblish for “entrepreneur” or, if it is someone tech-oriented, an “entreprenerd” or “dotcon artist.” 2002 Amy Fennell Christian Entrepreneur.com (June) “Need Advice? Get a Mentor!”: While the Small Business Administration may be the granddaddy of all business sites, it’s SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), one of the SBA’s resource partners, that offers ’treps help from those who’ve actually been there.
1980 United States Senate (Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal year 1981) (Washington, D.C.) (Feb. 19) “Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations…on H.R. 7724, Part 1” p. 262: Senator McClure.…We have some that were used since the days of the covered wagon out there that are still used by ranchers in the area and have been ever since they had wheeled vehicles.…Yet the BLM says they’re not roads—that is a wilderness area. Secretary Andrus. I would suggest, Senator, that what you’re referring to is not the definition of “roads,” but a cherry-stemming effect around those areas. But it does it does make it very difficult to determine if a road is a roadless area of 5,000 acres or more. Senator McClure. I don’t know what you mean by “cherry-stemming.” Secretary Andrus. They run the road around with a— Senator McClure. Oh, you mean the designation of boundaries. Secretary Andrus. Yes. Senator McCLure. Obviously, if there is a road, how can you cherry-stem that in order to get 5,000 acres?…Secretary Andrus. I have not been a proponent of cherry-stemming myself, but it does go on. But our definition of roads used by a rancher is pretty broad, where they’re going out to even maintain a water trough and it has been done in a mechanical way. 1981 Inside Energy/with Federal Lands (July 13) “Interior Near Decision On ‘Cherrystemming’; Minerals Boost At Stake” p. 3: Interior Dept. officials are expected to decide by July 23 whether to retain existing department policy on “cherrystemming” in Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas (WSAs).… A cherrystem is a narrow strip of land with nonwilderness characteristics which extends into—but not all the way across—a WSA. Most cherrystems contain roads. 1988 Robert Reinhold @ Kelso, California New York Times (June 25) “Military and Preservationists Clash Over Mojave’s Future”: Mr. Dodson said the plan “cherry stemmed’” many wildnerness areas, drawing boundaries along existing roads so that it is possible to penetrate close to the center. 1999 Subcommittee On National Parks And Public Lands Of The Committee On Resources House Of Representatives Hearing on H.R. 15, H.R. 150, and H.R. 154 (Washington, D.C.) (Feb. 4): Let me refer you to the onsite map and the references to the cherry stemmed roads. We have learned that we need to have the ability, if necessary, to put structures up along the border, but we need proper access and communication. Border patrol and BLM have completed a road that runs right along the border, and, if you notice, the wilderness area does not include the area actually on the border. That gives the Border Patrol the ability to build structures if need be, and to maintain their access roads. On either side of the cherry stemmed roads they have a 100 feet. *2000 United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management @ Elko, Nevada Nevada Wilderness Study Area Notebooks (Oct.) “Little Humboldt River Wilderness Study Area”: The area recommended for wilderness contains two inholdings. A 40-acre parcel at the southern end has no developed access and is too rugged for development. A cherrystem road provides access to the 160-acre parcel at Castle Place in the northern portion. This parcel contains a corral, but its primary use is recreational. Neither the corral nor cherrystem road is substantially noticeable. The area recommended for wilderness contains one other cherrystem road, which is not visible from most of the recommended area or the canyon areas. 2006 National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior Frequently Asked Questions General Management Plan /Wilderness Study/Environmental Impact Statement (Feb. 1) p. 16: At meetings with various groups during the past few years, the National Park Service had said that some areas within the recommended wilderness boundary could be “cherry- stemmed” out from the wilderness boundary as “minor modifications.”… “Cherry-stemming” is a method of excluding “non-conforming” uses such as roads from areas proposed as wilderness. *2007 Utah Wilderness Coalition (Moab, Utah) (May 31) “Frequently Asked Questions: Original BLM Wilderness Inventory”: If a dead-end road extends into another roadless area, the wilderness area boundary is sometimes drawn so as to exclude the road but include the land on both sides of the road. This is called a “cherry-stem,” since the road bears some resemblance to a cherry-stem jutting into the wilderness area. 2007 Dennis Webb Post Independent (Glenwood Springs, Colorado) (Sept. 12) “Wilderness bill would protect Roan Plateau”: As proposed, it carves out principal roads on top from the areas proposed for wilderness designation through what’s called “cherry-stemming,” so they could continue to be used. Motorized vehicle travel is prohibited in wilderness.
1973 Hartford Courant (Connecticut) (Dec. 30) “Examples of Black Vernacular” p. 12F: Poot-butt—A square; someone who doesn’t know what’s happening; often a child. 1975 Joseph Nazel The Shakedown p. 37: He could not see the man’s eyes behind the dark shades. But had seen the lean, cruel face before. A face like the faces of other toughs Willie had come up against in the streets. He had grown up with them. He had been one of them, once, a long time ago when he didn’t know any better. But Ice had pulled him out of that bag. Pulled his coat to the poop-butt action. 1975 Joseph Nazel Death for Hire p. 19: All that was poot butt shit. This here gonna make the boys and faggots sit down while the men get it on. 1975 Red Jordan Arobateau Flash on the Hustler (Oakland, California) p. 55: Shoo read this youngman to be a copout—a no-good, poot butt nigger. Hustling and jiving. His underhanded ways, disrespecting his world. 1976 Herbert Blumer, Alan Sutter, Roger Smith, Samir Ahmed Socialization in Drug Abuse “Recruitment Into Drug Use” p. 165: The most severe threat to any adolescent drug user is the “snitch,” or the “loud mouth poop butt.” Anyone perceived as a potential informer will be isolated from the mainstream of adolescent drug use. 1977 Alan G. Sutter Drugs and Politics “Playing a Cold Game: Phases of a Ghetto Career” p. 203: A poop-butt mother-fucker in here dealin’ gets pushed aside, fucked over and stomped down. 1986 Sam Enriquez Los Angeles Times (Aug. 11) “Linguistic Labyrinth” p. Ii-6: Poohbutt Someone who thinks he is a gang member but is not considered worthy. 1997 Gregory Kane Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia) (Nov. 3) “Bricks do clarify one’s thinking” p. P4A: The thief—part of the growing poot-butt posse making life miserable for law-abiding citizens across the nation—made off with a cellular phone.…I kept the concrete brick the poot-butt had hurled through my window. 1999 Lorraine Kee St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) (Nov. 17) “It’s About Commitment” p. E1: It’s hard for you to know whether you can cut it anyplace. Not just here, anywhere. Don’t believe that about “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” That’s bull ——. If you can make it period, that’s wonderful. That’s anywhere. In a little poop-butt town. 2004 Jervey Tervalon LA Weekly (Los Angeles, California) (Feb. 18) “A Writer’s Life”: Then it was competing with Gompers and Mount Vernon for the status of the junior high most likely to beat down a half-assed pootbutt who liked to read. 2005 Mary Monroe In Sheep’s Clothing (Sept. 1) p. 52: How some of these pooh-butt places can stay in business in this day and age without accepting credit cards is a mystery to me. 2006 Steve Patterson Chicago Sun-Times (July 4) “He’s ‘a little poop butt’” p. 03: Asked Monday, Beavers quickly denied there was anything misleading, saying “oh, hell no,” before calling Orr a “little poop butt.”
2007 Queen Sexy (Jan. 2) “Resolutions Are Stupid”: What asscrumb coined the phrase “Get my grown man/woman on”? I absolutely hate them for it. Now we got all these poot butt mfs runnin round here sayin that shit. If you doin you, great.
1995 [Dave Beard] Usenet: sci.archaeology (Mar. 15) “Re: Looking For Work On A Dig!”: It will be possible for people who have some excavation experience to come as volunteers. In these cases there will be no formal tuition provided. However, this does not simply mean that they will be used as trowel fodder! 1999 [John Michaels] Usenet: sci.archaeology.moderated (Apr. 24) “Draft layout for a small finds report”: I have been working in a commercial archaeology company as basic trowel fodder for a year and have now been given the task of writing the small finds report from my first site. 2004 Dave Jones Education and the Historic Environment (Mar. 2) “Archaeology in Further Education” p. 45: Excavations are often very expensive or simply use students as “trowel fodder,” providing no training at all. 2006 Paul Sussman CNN (Dec. 11) “Shortcuts: How to make it as an archaeologist”: While many of the technical aspects of archaeology can be learnt in a classroom, there is no substitute for practical experience. If you are really committed to the subject many excavations will offer places to what are commonly known as “trowel fodder”—people who do all the messy, boring jobs such as digging trenches, pushing wheel barrows and standing around all day in the pouring rain holding surveying poles. It might not be glamorous, but it will give you an invaluable grounding in the basic skills of field archaeology.
1970 @ Analyzing Variation in Language: Papers from the Second Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation (June, 1975) Ralph W. Fasold, Roger W. Shuy p. 219: Sadock, Jerrold M. 1970. Whimperatives. In: Studies presented to R.B. Lees by his students. Edited by Sadock and Vanek Edmonton, Linguistic Research, Inc. 223-228. 1979 Birgit Stolt Die Partikeln der deutschen Sprache “Ein Diskussionsbeitrag zu mal, eben, auch, doch aus kontrastiver Sicht (Deutsch-Schwedish)” p. 479: The process is compared to the dressing-up of a request in the form of a question (“Whimperatives”). 1982 Marvin K.L. Ching American Speech (Summer) “The Question Intonation in Assertions” vol. 57, no. 2, p. 98: The whimperative and the impositive are polite ways of commanding or requesting through indirection. Sadock states: “Every language provides subtle and not-so-subtle means of encoding information about the intentions of the speaker and his assumptions about the speech situation in the sentences he uses”….At times, deliberate ambiguity of illocutionary force may be used defensively in making a provocative utterance because the speaker can claim he never meant the statement in the way it was conceived by the listener. 1988 K. Opalek Normative Structures of the Social World (Jan.) “Directives, Norms, and Performatives” p. 193: We shall not discuss here the complicated questions of implicit performatives, e.g., of so-called whimperatives, debated in the linguistic literature. 1990 Ioanna Dimitracopoulou Conversational Competence and Social Development (Aug. 31) p. 93: There is some evidence of impositives and wh- imperatives, but relative to all the questions that mothers address to their children, the number of the wh- imperatives and impositives is small. 2007 Steven Pinker Time (Sept. 6) “Words Don’t Mean What They Mean”: The clearest example is ordinary politeness. When you are at a dinner party and want the salt, you don’t blurt out, “Gimme the salt.” Rather, you use what linguists call a whimperative, as in “Do you think you could pass the salt?” or “If you could pass the salt, that would be awesome.”
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Slang. An unrelated “tumsy” is often used as a childish nickname for the stomach.
[2002 [Derek] Usenet: alt.lifestyle.all-faiths (Oct. 29) “Re: Persecution”: Looking at your tumsy perhaps.] [2003 [Bitchpapa] b3ta.com board (United Kingdom) (Aug. 8) “how is your tumpsy?”: I am always thinking about your tumpsy.] 2003 [thisnthat, Dawn Syndrome] b3ta.com board (United Kingdom) (Nov. 21) “Archive 11797”: “Is that Dawn’s tumpsy?” “It does look like it, doesn’t it? But there is more hair. Derek likes hairy pie.” 2005 [Glenn] I Am An Architect, They Call Me Pat Butcher (Apr. 27) “What was that pool game called?”: Youngsters don’t get funny feelings anymore from the sight of a breast or tumpsy. 2006 Janice Turner Times (United Kingdom) (Mar. 18) “Don’t fight gravity. Embrace gravitas” p. 24: So it was dismaying to see her trading once more on her tumpsy instead of her brains and her bad, brilliant mouth. 2006 Star Trip (United Kingdom) (Sept. 13) “Jay Kay makes late bid for inclusion in next Virtua Fighter game”: I reckon he lost his rag when one of them shouted “Move along beardy, I can’t get a decent shot of Li-Lo’s tumpsy!” 2007 Stuart Heritage Hecklerspray (Jan. 30) “Paris Hilton Sues The Millionth Website To Show Her Naked”: Most men have seen Paris Hilton’s bare tumpsy more often than they’ve seen their own reflection.
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1933 Davis J. Walsh @ New York Lincoln Star (Nebraska) (Nov. 4) “Fordham In Action With One Eye Cocked On Pasadena’s Bowl” p. 8: Fordham and St. Mary’s, the “Irish” of the east and west coasts, are to meet in their annual football game at the Polo Grounds this afternoon and the sidewalk alumni will be there to the last man. 1939 W.J. Lee Hartford Courant (Connecticut) (Oct. 25) “With Malice Toward None” p. 15: He was talking in somewhat awed tones of the game he had seen the day before at the Polo Grounds—the one between the New York Giants and the Chicago Bears.…As one of the sidewalk alumni who was sitting just behind where we were sitting said, “That’s the best ‘gool’ line stand I ever saw.” 1939 Chicago Daily Tribune (Dec. 27) “Boston Leaves Star Back Home From Bowl Trip” (in Boston, Massachusetts) p. 20: A cheering, singing throng of 5,000 students, alumni, faculty, and sidewalk alumni braved 20 degree cold to crowd Boston’s south terminal. 1986 Art Rosenbaum San Francisco Chronicle (Oct. 15) “Baseball Will Return to the Drab in 1987” p. 58: People said he liked green because we’re Irish, but actually he was, and is, a Notre Dame red-hot, one of the well-known sidewalk alumni. Notre Dame’s colors are kelly green and gold, and that was Charlie’s inspiration. 2002 [BrentVU] Scout.com (May 27) “VandyMania Interview: Paul Eells”: I think the fan base at Vanderbilt was just great. Tennessee dominates the state, so you had to be a great fan at Vanderbilt. I was interested that Vandy had so many sidewalk alumni, and terrific support. 2007 [ICE223] MLive.com (Michigan) (Sept. 4) “Fans voice frustration with Carr after loss to Appalachian State”: The real alumni are great fans, root for their school, and support it no matter what. Those here that yell the loudest…brag the most…then bail at the first sign of trouble…are what I call the “Sidewalk Alumni” wannabees at best.
1991 Andrew Slough The Traveling Skier: 20 Five-Star Skiing Vacations (Aug. 1) p. 276: No one knows who cut the first bootleg trails. By definition it would have to be after 1937, when the first rope tow was erected on Mt. Mansfield. If charging for a lift lent a certain legitimacy to the sport, it also put pressure on the accessible terrain. Frowned on or not, a little creative pruning mirrored the pioneering hard work that originally cleared the surround pastures.…Runs were cut, and skiers in search of untracked snow traversed further into the woods. 1996 Robert C. Birkby Lightly on the Land: The Sca Trail-Building and Maintenance Manual (July) p. 26: If you must camp on undisturbed ground, do what you can to limit soil compaction, the formation of bootleg trails, and the trampling of plants. 2007 Kyle Brazzel Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Sept. 3) “Naturally useful”: Master Naturalists also spend a lot of time using brush, logs and leaves to obscure what rangers like Mullins refer to as “bootleg trails,” unplanned, unsanctioned paths that have emerged in the mountainside due to the repeated shortcuts of hikers who leave the designated trails.
2006 [Big Dave] @ Chicago, Illinois MySpace (May 5) “Racism is hilarious!!”: While I was down in Louisiana, I was a GM working at this multi-billion dollar business. While I was there, I was always the only meatball in the rice. So I guess that meant i was the ambassador for all things Black. 2006 [Queen-To-Be] Queen To Be (Dec. 6) “Meatball in the Rice”: I was the only meatball in the rice tonight.…I was on my high school staff and as my best friend in the program put it—“It’s only Six of us Meatballs in the Rice” Meatballs being the black people in the program. Rice being the 30/40 plus other students who were white. 2007 Swagger Vanze MySpace (Jan. 17) “Amer Kali”: I See Your Still the Only Meatball in The Rice Huh? Im Just Fuccin With Ya. 2007 [justinwstephens] Flickr (Mar. 13) “Gawker / Lifehacker party”: So many Jew fro’s at the party that for once, it was hard to spot Alex in the crowd….except that he’s usually the only “meatball in the rice.” 2007 Jennifer Jacobs Des Moines Register (Iowa) (Sept. 2) “Felon makes new life as a dad”: I didn’t want her to be the only meatball in the rice, but I didn’t want her to go to an all-black school and get up with some of this so-called ghetto stuff.
1988 Jay R. Begun Newsday (Long Island, New York) (June 22) “Sitting on the Dock on the Bay; A summertime generation gap”: The dock area is closed to cars from midnight to 6 a.m., but according to 17-year-old Kim Stolz of North Woodmere, the police “bust on us” even before midnight. 1988 Sam Marchiano, John Valenti Newsday (Long Island, New York) (Nov. 23) “McElreavy Is Under Fire; Assistant charges alcohol abuse and affair”: I knew the rumors existed. But there are nothing to the accusations. I just thought people were busting on me. I had no idea they had gone beyond the football circle. 1989 [Robert A. Beeler] Usenet: rec.arts.movies (Nov. 7) “Movie Hotline vol 1. iss. 2”: As to the overall tone, true, it is condescending, but if I bust on your favorite director, don’t give me heat, it’s all in good fun. 1990 Jeff Gottlieb San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Oct. 2) “Christian Brando’s Troubled Life” p. B3: Their story is that Christian picked up the gun at the home of his girlfriend, Laurene Landon. He told Cheyenne he was going to “bust on” her lover. Christian walked into his father’s house, started arguing with Drollet and then murdered him. 1991 John Brennan The Record (New Jersey) (Feb. 1) “Sports Talk” p. D02: We kinda bust on him—a little kidding, a little convincing. 1991 Mark J. Czerwinski The Record (New Jersey) (May 19) “Plenty Of Motivation For WPC’s Christian” p. S15: “Lepore hit a liner to center for the second out,” Christian said. “When he passed by me, he ‘All over you, all over you.’ That really pumped me up. I mean, I like it when people bust on me, but do it from the dugout. Don’t say it to me like that.” 2001 Kelly Whiteside USA Today (Mar. 29) “Connecticut’s Taurasi handling the pressure”: Who else would have the self-assurance to bust on her own athletic director? A freshman, no less. 2002 [vraiblonde] Southern Maryland Community Forums (Mar. 14) “Breastfeeding”: You bring up a peeve that I have—older children still breastfeeding.…But, again, I hate to bust on them because what do I know. 2002 Jessica Shaw CNN.com (Aug. 15) “R.J. gets voted off ‘American Idol’”: Bonus points to Ryan Seacrest for calling Randy on his redundancy on the Wednesday half-hour. It’s about time the hosts busted on someone other than Simon. 2003 Providence Journal (Rhode Island) (Oct. 10) “Police news” (in Johnston): Swist approached the officers and asked what they were doing. They told him they were investigating a case and Swist became argumentative. He asked why the cops were busting on him.…Swist then walked away and entered the house. 2007 Dan Gainor @ Baltimore, Maryland Examiner.com (Aug. 29) “Workers still laboring to do their best”: Recently, I busted on several companies that had lost touch with the concept of customer service.
1979 Revision of the Federal Criminal Code (Washington, D.C.) “Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives” no. 80, p. 2966: In Michigan, for example, Detective Lieutenant Darrell Pope, a Vice-Investigator with the Michigan State Police, in a public lecture (May 1, 1979) titled, “Does Pornographic Literature Incite Sexual Assaults?” gave numerous cases where the assailants had immersed themselves in pornographic films and pictures and then had gone out and committed rape, sodomy, and even the bizarre erotic crime of piquerism (piercing with a knife till blood flows, a kind of sexual torture). 1990 Charles Bremner @ New York Times (United Kingdom) (July 9) “Overseas news”: Psychiatrists have been vying for air time to explain piquerism, the disorder which he is said to suffer. “A piquerist tends to get excited by using an instrument to penetrate his victim, usually from afar,” said one. 2003 Charles Patrick Ewing Monitor on Psychology (July-Aug.) “False credentials cause extensive fallout” vol. 34, no. 7, p. 84: “Piquerists experience sexual gratification through any type of penetration of another person, and stab wounds, sniper activity, cutting and bite marks are evidence of such a condition.”…It is now clear that the expert’s qualifications were largely perjured, and that the syndrome, dubbed “piquerism” is referenced nowhere but in a true-crime paperback.
1969 Mrs. G.E. Finney @ advertisement Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) (June 13) “Auction of Horse Trailer and Racing Equipment” p. 24: I will sell the following belonging to my late husband.…Tooth floater and gag. 1982 Ellen Barlett @ Davie, Florida Washington Post (Dec. 1) “Horse dentist floats around in a stable job” p. D1: Verts doesn’t consider himself a doctor, anyway. He’s a horse floater, one who “floats,” or files down, teeth. Some say floaters got their name from their partiality to drifting about the country. Others think they were named for the similarity of their hardware to the flat-faced tools—floats—used for finishing concrete. 2004 RegAlert (Feb. 20) “Texas—Proposed—Racing Commission—16 TAC 311”: The fee for an occupational license is as follows:…Tooth Floater $75. 2006 [Re`al "Buill" Oney] My Moody Indigo! p. 81: Doc Ellers was very pleased, as he presented me with a set of old horse teeth floaters. He told me they worked much better than the new contraptions. He was eighty. 2006 Charley Shaw St. Paul Legal Ledger (Minnesota) (Aug. 21) “Something to chew on from MN chapter of the Institute for Justice”: Chris Johnson just wants to float horse teeth again, and he’s getting help from the Minnesota chapter of the Institute for Justice. The group filed a lawsuit last week against the Minnesota Board of Veterinary Medicine on behalf of Johnson, a Hutchinson man who is barred from filing down the teeth of horses, a procedure called floating.…Johnson, 37, is a third generation horse teeth floater who began learning the practice from his father in 2004. 2007 Tracie Rozhon New York Times (May 18) “The Tyranny of the 2nd Home”: John Bricker, a retail designer and brand developer who owns a “floater,” a four-bedroom shingled cottage that was floated over from the mainland to Fire Island, N.Y., said that after commuting to a second home it was important not to think about money, or about guilt. 2007 Peggy O’Neill Billings Gazette (Montana) (Aug. 29) “Horse aficionado draws fans to book fictionalizing history”: “Tooth floater” is another term for a horse dentist, a trade he practices during the winters in Florida.
1994 Usenet: alt.fairs.renaissance (Sept. 12) “Re: Sterling NY Alumni?”: I’ve been attending the festival since 1988 and during the 1992 and 1993 seasons I was a member of the volunteer group known alternately as the Support Troupe, Playtrons, or POR Folk. 1997 [Bellebet (Tricia, Rosemary Anne Thyme)] Usenet: alt.fairs.renaissance (Oct. 17) “Re: MMario: thanks!”: I know quite a few people, including myself who would love to be playtrons and be your “Front Row CHorus.” The rennie’s are coming, the Rennies are coming! 1998 [AuroraeB (Tracy)] Usenet: alt.fairs.renaissance (Aug. 19) “Re: What do you value?”: I love to “people-watch,” be they participants or just playtrons and patrons who show up in bizzare attire. 2007 Rona Marech Baltimore Sun (Maryland) (Aug. 27) “Knights and ladies escape to Revel Grove”: Such devotion is common among “Rennies” or “playtrons,” as the most serious Renaissance-obsessed merrymakers call themselves. Many have attended the festival for decades—sometimes traveling great distances to roam the 25-acre faux-Tudor village of Revel Grove.
*2006 MTV.com (Mar. 14) “My Block: Atlanta; Shake That Laffy Taffy: From The Strip Clubs To The Charts” (in Atlanta, Georgia): Frequenting strip clubs in Atlanta, such as Magic City, the Blue Flame, Body Tap and the now-defunct Gentleman’s Club, has become almost a religion, making adult entertainment one of the most profitable businesses in the city—not so surprising when on any given night you might see a big balla like Young Jeezy come into a club and throw 10K in the air (that’s known as “making it rain”). 2006 Richard Fausset @ Atlanta, Georgia Los Angeles Times (Apr. 28) “Naked Hip-Hop Ambition”: From time to time, patrons flung plumes of cash toward the rafters, letting the dollar bills flutter where they may—a ritual known as “making it rain.” It began as a flashy way for big-timers to tip the dancers, but it has evolved into a thing unto itself—a raw display of wealth and power. In Atlanta, the presence of two or three major rap stars in one club can lead to a rainmaking competition, and leave thousands of dollars on the floor. 2007 Jessica Fender Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) (Feb. 26) “Little of $81,000 from strip club is Pacman’s, owner says”: Rob Susnar, co-owner of the new Minxx Gentlemen’s Club and Lounge, Monday questioned initial police reports that put $81,000—supposedly used by Jones to shower 40 strippers in a practice known as “making it rain”—in the hands of the troubled football player about 5 a.m. Feb. 19. Club employees changed $3,500 into singles for the sports star, said Susnar, who was not there himself. 2007 Michael Kaplan @ Las Vegas New York Times (Aug. 26) “Losing Your Shirt, but Not in the Casino”: If that’s not enough, showoffs at Rehab have developed a custom that they call making it rain. “They drop $100 bills from the cabanas up above,” Mr. Pallas says, “and watch the crowd down below go crazy. We have a guy come in every Sunday on his private jet. He stays for the day and makes it rain.”
1971 Danny Lammert @ Haskell Abilene Reporter-News (Texas) (Feb. 18) “Cowboys Push Herd To Market” p. 9-D: Instead of the customary chuck wagon, the participating cowboys and a number of “windshield cowboy” spectators ate their barbecue dinner at the auction after the herd was penned. 1981 David F. Salisbury @ Denver, Colorado Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts) (May 21) “Cowboys—the real kind—are a vanishing breed” p. 2: These weekend ranchers are also called “windshield cowboys” because they use sack feed instead of graze and have trained their cattle to come at the sound of an auto horn. 1984 Murray Olderman The News (Frederick, Maryland) (Feb. 18) “At 69, DiMag is riding high” p. B-3: Spahnie, who teamed with Johnny Sain to lead the old Boston Braves to a 1948 National League pennant, now calls himself a “windshield cowboy.” A bad knee keeps him from riding the range horseback to round up his Herefords. 1993 Rick Sylvain Austin American-Statesman (Texas) (June 20) “Bee-ill (and his election) puts state on map” p. E13: Meanwhile, Cornwell, 87, keeps 182 head of cattle not far from the banks of the Arkansas River. “I call myself the windshield cowboy. I drive around in my pickup, and if anything’s wrong I get someone to fix it.” 2007 Julie Mason @ Crawford Houston Chronicle (Texas) (Aug. 23) “Bush has brush with an old Texas foe: pesky cedar”: “We don’t ride horses at our ranch,” first lady Laura Bush told CNN. “My husband is what’s called ‘the windshield cowboy.’ That means we ride a pickup.”
1998 Insurance Regulator (Nov. 23) “Hanover Weathers REIT Storm” vol. 21, no. 45, p. 1: Hanover’s primary niche is buying “scratch and dent” mortgage portfolios that for one reason or another do not qualify for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. 2000 Commercial Mortgage Alert (Aug. 7) “Firm Plans to Buy Loan “Kickouts”” vol. 7, no. 31,: A company that invests in high-yield real estate debt is looking to buy loans that have been “kicked out” of commercial MBS deals. Midwest Equities of St. Louis has initially allotted $50 million for the purchase of “scratch and dent” loans. 2005 Frank J. Fabozzi Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities (Dec. 21) p. 94: The “other” category includes…scratch and dent loans and resecuritizations. 2007 Julie Creswell, Vikas Bajaj New York Times (Aug. 1) “Jittery Stock Market Drops as Mortgage Fallout Spreads”: Founded in 1996, New York-based C-Bass specializes in investing in distressed home mortgage loans. Also known as “scratch and dent” mortgages, these are loans that were either not documented properly or on which borrowers missed a payment but are now current.
1998 Amy Roquemore Dallas Morning News (Texas) (Aug. 13) “Grapevine school offers breakfast—for parents” p. 1N: It’s for that reason that for two years the Dove Elementary PTA has hosted a “Boo-Hoo Breakfast” to console parents—especially those of kindergarten students—on the first day of school for the last two years. 2000 Monique Fields St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Aug. 24) “ Separation anxiety—on the part of parents”: “It’s the first realization that they will leave you at some point,” said Mary Morel, a mother of four, including 5-year-old twins who started kindergarten at Safety Harbor Elementary School on Wednesday. “It’s really sad. I cried all (Tuesday).” Schools are mindful of the transition and some have scheduled Boohoo Breakfasts to help parents cope. Most children, for their part, took their new independence in stride. 2003 Jeffrey S. Solochek @ Spring Hill St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Aug. 29) “Rift grows over suspension of school’s PTA”: By this time last year, the Spring Hill Elementary School PTA had welcomed teachers back to school with a breakfast, consoled sad parents with a boo-hoo breakfast and begun plans for the school’s fall festival. 2007 Tia Mitchell Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Aug. 21) “Teachers saying bye-bye to parents who boohoo”: The idea is to immediately begin teaching kindergartners the behaviors and habits they need to be successful. That means Mom and Dad can’t hover around. Many elementary schools around Northeast Florida have what are often referred to as “Boohoo Breakfasts,” encouraging parents of kindergartners to stop in the media center for snacks, question-and-answer sessions and sometimes even a good book to warm their hearts.
1835 Stephen Burroughs Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs (Boston) p. 291: I took a large flake of hay and laid it on some rails which I had fixed for that purpose, and creeped under it, to shelter myself, in some small measure, from the rain. 1886 Robert Holland A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester (London, United Kingdom) p. 126: FLEAK, s. a small bundle of hay; not a truss. 1899 Hamlin Garland Boy Life on the Prairie (New York) p. 60: One of the shrewd ways in which the boys made concealment was by lifting a flake of hay from the stack and making a hole beneath it. Upon letting the flake of weather-beaten thatch fall back into place, all signs of the nest disappeared. 1988 Peter Anderson Boston Globe (Massachusetts) (Nov. 13) “Statistical Abstract” p. 29: If you can stick your nose into a flake of hay and take a deep breath without coughing, your horse will too. 1991 Donna Jean MacKinnon Toronto Star (Canada) (Oct. 13) “ These downtown professionals have made rural dreams a reality” p. E1: The donkeys are inexpensive to keep. They eat a flake of hay a day and a Campbell’s soup tin of grain. 1993 Harold Hawk Parkersburg News (West Virginia) (Aug. 29) “Small horses a big part of Sandyville family’s life”: The average backyard can provide sufficient pasture for a miniature horse. In winter, a flake of hay and a pint of grain a day will keep the little animal sleek, healthy and content. 1995 Thoroughbred Times (Dec. 23) “The Christmas foundling”: Chris placed him in a stall and told Billy to toss him a flake of hay. The horse dived into it.…His hay was gone and Billy was tossing him another flake when Roger drove up. 1998 M.H. Salmon Mother Earth News (Apr. 14) “Starting right with homestead goats” p. 68: Pregnant or milking does need the extra protein and nutrition of alfalfa hay, or a grass/alfalfa mix. One flake of hay per adult goat, fed morning and evening, is about right. 1999 Slim Randles Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico) (Jan. 5) “Little Goats Delight Breeder in Big Way” p. 7: After goat-proofing the yard with a substantial fence, all it requires is letting them mow the lawn and eat up to one flake of hay a day each. Connie feeds half a flake in summer and a full flake in winter. There are about 20 flakes in each bale, and a bale of good alfalfa runs something around $5. 2001 Sean Clancy Bloodhorse.com (Aug. 7) “A Cup of Coffee”: I want nothing except for this flake of alfalfa hay in the back corner. *2003 North American Limousin Foundation Feed a Winner (May 22) p. 4: A flake of hay refers to as section approximately 2 to 3 inches wide. 2003 School of Veterinary Medicine @ University of Wisconsin-Madison SVM Dairy Teaching Herd—Employee Training (Sept. 18) “Feeding”: A flake of hay is about 20 lbs so each cow would get about a 1⁄4 of a flake. 2004 Barbara Damrosch Washington Post (May 6) “Green Thumbs Value a Good Mulch” p. H08: I prefer mulches that break down readily in the soil and are easy to lay down. I used to buy salt hay, which grows in coastal marshes, because the seeds it contains don’t germinate in gardens. But it’s less available now, so I use straw or hay. These come off the bale in flakes, like the volumes in an encyclopedia. 2006 Hay & Forage Grower (Feb. 1) “Hay Tools For 2006” vol. 21, no. 2, p. 30: Krone’s BP-12130 4 × 4 big square baler has standard features found on other models in the company’s Big Pack line. Its V.F.S. prechamber reduces stress loads and improves bale flake density. 2006 Karen Martin Arkansas Democrat Gazette (Oct. 14) “Good horsekeeping Tips for building a barn to house your horses” p. 43: Other useful options include automatic waterers (indoor and outdoor), rubber flooring, automatic flake hay dispensers.
1986 John Reed Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) (July 20): A house note dealer is a car dealer who doesn’t go through a bank or credit bureau when he sells a car. Rather, he “totes the note” himself. 1988 Dallas Magazine (Texas) (Jan. 1) “Thrill of Victory” vol. 67, no. 1, p. 30: He did not really want to own a football team, although the prospect of owning the Dallas Cowboys, a team that commanded some of his loyalty but considerably less than his beloved Texas Aggies, was intriguing. He was content to stand back and let Henry S. Miller and W.O. Bankston, two of Dallas” heaviest financial hitters, tote the note. 1989 Raad Cawthon Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia) (July 26) “Bypassed Since the ‘70s, Memphis Wants Franchise More Than Ever” p. E/01: Fred Smith, founder and chief executive officer of Memphis-based Federal Express, is the name that comes to everyone’s lips when asked what advantage the city has in the race for an NFL expansion team. “Fred has said, ‘I’ll tote the note,’” Cooley says. Frankly, I don’t think anyone in Jacksonville has that kind of whip-out.” 1992 Tom Baxter Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Georgia) (Aug. 23) “Candidates find South well worth fighting for”: He and the majority of those at the dinner share the point of view of Bobby Richardson and Al Rowe, salesmen at two of the “tote-a-note” lots selling automobiles on easy terms along Victory Drive in Columbus, Ga. 1995 Tami Cissna Tulsa World (Oklahoma) (Feb. 8) “Auto Repo Men Find Job Thrilling Despite Inherent Dangers” p. 6: Robinson and Hancock, who owns his own tow truck and is self-employed, accompany each other as much as possible for an extra measure of safety. Many of the cars they pick up are for “tote-a-note” lots where nonpayment risk is high. 2006 Andi Atwater Wichita Eagle (Kansas) (Aug. 19) “Car dealer remembered for honesty”: Shumaker said he and Mr. Souders sold their new-car dealerships in the mid-1980s and focused on their “very affordable” used-car lots. He said they were the first in Wichita—and possibly the state—to offer “tote-a-note” financing, but it worked. 2007 Harris Blackwood Gainesville Times (Georgia) (Aug. 19) “New tag law puts a dent in used car sales: ‘Tote a note’ lots suffer as Hispanic buyers balk”: Atlanta Highway is home to a number of what are often referred to as “tote a note” used car lots. These dealerships carry older and less expensive used vehicles and offer in-house financing.
1982 Karl E. Meyer New York Times (Dec. 26) “Good Times Coming”: Big Brother is banished from Mr. Naisbitt’s 1980’s. On the contrary, to use his key words, the decade will be decentralized and high-touch, participatory and networked, filled with multiple options in an information society hooked to a world economy yielding blessings for all. 1984 Lena H. Sun Washington Post (Feb. 23) “Alexandria Proposes Elementary Magnet School in Science”: “If we go high tech, we’re also going to go high touch,” he said, referring to what he said would be an increased contact between pupil and teacher. 1992 ABA Banking Journal (Sept. 1) “Technology: Ally Or Enemy Of Customer Service?” p. 88: We face a recurring problem, one of segmentation. We need to segment customer groups and be able to reach all of them—those that need high touch and those that need high tech. All of us are talking about meeting banking needs, and it will become more and more important to understand the segments and have technology for those who need it and high touch for those who need that. 2007 Jon Knutson In-Forum (Fargo, North Dakota) (Aug. 13) “Banking on technology”: Will banks need to be high-tech to succeed? There’s always going to be what I call the high-touch bank. There’s always going to be the high-tech bank, and banks in between.
2004 Michael Gormley @ Albany, New York USA Today (July 8) “‘Frankenpine’: Camoflaged cell tower or Adirondack monstrosity?”: The tower would be part of a new brand of high-tech tower that tries to mimic trees and vegetation. Nextel proposes to paint the tower brown at its lowest sections and attach fake branches to make the tower appear to be a white pine, albeit more than 30 feet higher than any surrounding trees. Critics dub it “Frankenpine.” 2006 Carolyn Carlson Albuquerque Journal (New Mexico) (Sept. 22) “Los Ranchos Panel Backs Cell Tower”: Opponents also questioned the primary design that TMobile is considering—a “monopine” that Varela said would camouflage the tower to look like tall trees.…Serna said placing the “Frankenpine” above the park’s cottonwoods, which will lose their leaves in the fall, is “ludicrous.” 2007 Rebecca Steffan Adirondack Daily Enterprise (Saranac Lake, New York) (Aug. 15) “‘Stealth Towers’ exhibit focuses on art, not controversy of the I-87 tower debate”: Frankenpine is a term used to describe a cell phone tower disguised as a tree.
1997 [SaTxLover] Usenet: alt.prisons (Jan. 9) “Re: Prison Slang: What is Featherwood??”: Featherwood is slang for a white racist girl. 1997 Jeanie Borba, Robert Rodriguez Fresno Bee (California) (Apr. 1) “White gangs create atmosphere of fear at Buchanan” p. A1: A small group of boys calling themselves the Peckerwoods and girls known as the Featherwoods are at least partly responsible for the trouble at Buchanan. 1997 Dennis McCarthy, Brent Hunsberger Portland Oregonian (Apr. 2) “Police Arrest Skinheads In Racial Brawl” p. D01: Maddox wore the word “Featherwood” tattooed on her wrist, a marking authorities say is associated with Skinhead activity, and sported a buzz hair cut with long, reddish-brown bangs hanging in front. 1998 William Finnegan Cold New World p. 293: Angela would tear herself away from the TV and finish opening the can, declaring herself “a skin bitch, a Featherwood.” 1998 Barbara Ann Owen In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison (Feb.) p. 156: “It’s no different than you guys [who] got the Crips and the Bloods, the ‘cuz’ and all that, and the Mexicans have the Southern and the Northern. So we have the peckerwoods and the featherwoods.”…It is a touchy subject. Especially when you got two or three blacks in your room.…The others ones weren’t tripping on it—just her. Just her, because she is prejudiced. 2003 Tom Martin Behind Prison Walls (Mar.) p. 160: A distinct term, refering to white male offenders who emphasize a “hick” attitude. Although generally racist, it is not their focus, and they get along with other offenders better than the skinheads.…A female version is a featherwood. 2007 Elizabeth Fitch @ Monroe Shreveport Times (Louisiana) (Aug. 14) “Suspect had possible ties to supremacist prison gang”: Though Smith’s link to the Aryan Circle is unclear, white supremacist women are often referred to as “featherwoods.” Smith goes by the nickname “Little Feather.”
1951 Wall Street Journal (July 25) “Canadian Broadcasting Awards Canadian Bell TV Network Contract” p. 7: Canadian Broadcasting also awarded a five-year contract to Canadian National Railways and Canadian Pacific Railway jointly to provide network wireline services for radio broadcasting. 1969 New York Times (Dec. 26) “Phones In Planes Approved By F.C.C.” (in Washington, D.C.) p. 51: The new order sets aside 12 channels for air-ground service by “general communications common carriers, including both wireline and miscellaneous common carriers.” 1981 Dow Jones News Service (Apr. 9) “AT&T May Offer Mobil Phones Commercially Within Two Years”: A wholly-owned AT&T subsidiary Amps Corp was formed last year to comply with an earlier FCC order requiring that wireline carriers set up separate subsidiaries for cellular systems. 1991 Sanford Bingham @ New York international Herald Tribune (Paris, France) (Oct. 7) “Small Access Carriers Challenging Local Bell Monopolies A 2d Divestiture Looms in U.S.”: These latter licenses, which are being snapped up by entrepreneurs, by cellular telephone franchisees, by cable television companies, and by the Bells themselves, will allow low-cost entry into the local telephone market. They are being treated by the FCC and regulators as a field-leveling, pro-competitive tool but are viewed by the Bell companies as one more dispiriting milestone on the migration away from wireline networks, on which the Bell companies currently rely for nearly all of their revenue. 1993 Variety (June 24) “TW lays plans for fiber optic net in San Diego”: Although Pacific Telesis Group operates wireline telephone services in the region, U S West has held a cellular franchise in San Diego since 1986. 1994 Shari Caudron IndustryWeek (Dec. 19) “General Magic Inc. Mountain View, Calif.”: It will let your computer take advantage of information and services on different kinds of networks, in different brands of computers, on both wireline and wireless media, all over the world. 2007 Reuters (Aug. 14) “Company Profile for VZ.N”: The Company’s Wireline business provides telephone services, including voice, network access and nationwide long-distance services, broadband video and data services, and other communications products and services globally in 150 countries. Its wireline business also owns and operates one of the global Internet protocol (IP) networks.
1978 Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (January 20) “British financial crisis averted by ‘lifeboat’” (in London, United Kingdom): But there were persistent rumors in 1974 that the banking system was in danger, Mr. Richardson said. Without the boost of confidence from the Lifeboat, those rumors might have become self-fulfilling, and if one major bank had collapsed, I do not know where we would have stopped. At the time, stock market and property values were collapsing after a long upsurge begun in the 1960s, touching off a flight into cash. 1986 Terry Byland Financial Times (United Kingdom) (Feb. 17) “Wall Street: Dilemma Of Oil Benefits”: This in turn, it comments, could mean trouble for many small US banks, and some big ones, too, and could bring a flight to cash and precious metals and eventually a world recession. 1998 Nicholas Snowden Development Economics and Policy “The IMF as International Lender of Last Resort? A Reappraisal after the ‘Tequila Effect’” p. 424: Goodheart argues that modern bank runs have not involved a flight to cash but simply a rush to transfer deposits to institutions viewed as relatively safe: problems at individual banks have not produce a generalized crisis. 1998 BBC News (United Kingdom) (Oct. 13) “Business: The Economy; Corporate bonds bomb”: Last week, investors fled even the safest of all bond investments, the US treasury long bond, in a flight to cash. 2006 Trevor Wilson Myanmar’s Long Road to National Reconciliation (Aug. 30) p. 81: With a full-scale banking crisis now in play, there followed the usual symptoms of such events—bank closures and insolvencies, a flight to “cash,” the creation of a “secondary market” in frozen deposits, the cessation of lending, the stopping of remittances and transfers, and other maladies destructive of monetary institutions. 2007 Gene Arensberg Resource Investor (Aug. 12) “Got Gold Report—Big Markets Worry, Gold Market Sleeps?”: Isn’t it odd that when a financial crises threatens to get underway today hot money rushes to turn just about everything into fiat paper dollars? In something that has come to be called a “flight to cash,” for a little while it seems that just about everything is being sold at the same time, equities, commodities, even gold and silver.
[1846 Richard Winter Hamilton Sermons (Leeds) p. 89: “To the poor is the gospel preached.” They are interwove with the witness-mark of Christianity.] 1860 Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress (Washington) “Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office” p. 51: As surveys progressed, various improvements were introduced to secure regularity and convenience of description, by the establishment of base-lines, meridians, and standard parallels, through certain permanent natural points, the mouths of rivers…and more recently the summits of mountains,…each of these mountain tops overlooking an immense area, and all constituting monuments and witness posts to endure for all time. 1882 William H. Searles The Railroad Spiral (New York) p. 49: It is extremely important that the points S and L of each spiral should be secured by permanent monuments in the centre of the track, and by witness-posts at the side of the road. The posts should be painted and lettered so that they may serve as guides to the trackmen in their subsequent efforts to grade and “line up” the track. 1900 Richard Henry Stretch Prospecting Locating and Valuing Mines 2 ed., p. 372: Correct form of blaze on trees as witness marks. 1907 M.A. Cuming The Drummer Boy “The Sergeant of the Line”: A man in life’s goodly prime,/Whose visage was dark with the witness mark/Of service in Southern clime. 1908 George Purcell Costigan Jr. Handbook on American Mining Law (St. Paul, Minnesota) p. 257: Where it is impossible to put up and keep a post or monument at the proper place, a witness post or monument may be used. 1909 Joseph Baker Davis Surveying for Beginners (Ann Arbor, Michigan) p. 85: With a rule draw out a witness mark from each saw cut on the surfaced side of the line boards and plainly write there-on a brief designation of what line of the building the saw cut is on, as “Brick Line.” 1988 Jim Galloway Atlanta Journal Constitution (Georgia) (June 20) “Cyclists head home to BRAG again with growing event” p. B/01: Sara Yurman, 33, is a geographer with the Gwinnett County planning department who specializes in mapmaking. She found a “witness post” in the Modoc community, a rare thing, so she said, that showed that Modoc sits 5 feet above sea level. 1988 Aviation Week & Space Technology (Dec. 5) “B-2 Bomber Development New Design, Production Tools Will Play Key Role in B-2 Cost” (in Los Angeles) vol. 129, no. 23, p. 18: Development of a material cutting machine employing an ultrasonic cutting blade that is three times faster than earlier methods. The same equipment automatically marks the material with either witness mark lines or part numbers using an ink-jet process. 1997 James T. Mckenna Aviation Week & Space Technology (Aug. 18) “Guam Probe Targets Weather, Altitude Alert” vol. 147, no. 7, p. 20: Witness marks on the jack screws that drive the flaps and on other data indicate that Flight 801’s flaps had been placed in the landing setting of 30 deg., according to investigators. 1999 Alexander Wu Choo, Maruy Tigner Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering (Mar. 26) p. 447: The laminations can be designed to accommodate flipping, or alternation as noted above, to average out asymmetries. The design should incorporate a “witness mark” so that the pattern of alternation is evident. 2002 George A. Peters, Barbara J. Peters Automotive Vehicle Safety (Dec.) p. 144: There may be witness marks (scrapes and gouges) on the road surface that may suggest a post-impact movement of a vehicle. 2003 Peter Rhys Lewis, Ken Reynolds, Colin Gagg Forensic Materials Engineering: Case Studies (Sept. 29) p. 88: When recovering evidence for further observation, preservation of any dirt or grease mark on samples can be vital if critical evidence of its past history is not to be lost. Such trace evidence (witness marks) can help in reconstructing past movements of the sample, such as contact with older, perhaps mating parts. 2005 Construction News (Jan. 13) “In Stock” p. 16: Stanley Bostitch has developed a fixing gun designed for both industrial and construction applications. Its 23 Gauge Headless Pinner boasts a magazine that needs no adjustment for varying pin lengths and gives a clean finish clear of witness marks. 2005 [Zhanna] Geocaching (Aug. 10) “Zhanna found ROON (NGS Benchmark) ”: We took a cursory glance around for the drill hole (witness mark) without results. The boulders previously lining the east side of the road seem to have been either replaced or built into a more solid stone wall. Several of them have drill holes through, but there’s no way of knowing which may have been the witness mark, if any. 2006 ABC News (Aug. 26) “ABC News Now/Special Report”: Will there be a witness marks for the entire length of ground from the other runway to the other? Are you going to do the documenting of that?…Our team is documenting everything from the runway all the way to the final rest. And there are a number of witness marks. Whether it’s tree strikes, ground scars, they’re looking at all of that. 2007 Broadcast Engineering (Mar. 1) “DTV Marketplace” vol. 49, no. 1, p. 177: 35mm Film Lens…Weighs less than 4.5lbs, perfect for handheld or steadicam operation; has an extremely fast aperture speed of T/2.6, with excellent contrast and color reproduction; has a 320-degree focus rotation with more than 25 witness marks for maximum accuracy; is available in PL and Panavision mount. 2007 New York Law Journal (Aug. 1) “Expert Testimony Raises Questions Whether Vehicle Not ‘Crashworthy’ Under N.J. Product Liability Act” vol. 238, no. 22, p. 30: The location, shape and dimensions of this rectangle of witness marks [impressions on Mrs. Borsack’s shirt] clearly matches the width and shape of the seat belt webbing. 2007 Nicholas Varchaver Fortune/CNNMoney (Aug. 2) “The next energy crisis”: In recent years the state of Louisiana has embarked on the grueling process of improving its infrastructure maps. People trudge through marshes looking for so-called witness posts, aboveground markers for pipelines. After one such study, notes Roland Guidry, Louisiana’s oil-spill coordinator, “some of the companies were flabbergasted that their pipelines were over a quarter of a mile off from where they thought.”
1989 Rob Tripp Toronto Star (Canada) (Apr. 3) “Prison drug smuggling is tough to prevent” p. A14: Many inmates and visitors perfect the art of “suitcasing”—shoving drugs packed in plastic wrap or condoms up their rectum, or “bodypacking”—swallowing packets of drugs. 1998 Associated Press (Oct. 7) “Florida cases cited in report condemning U.S. human rights record” (in Miami, Florida): Many suspects in police custody also died while forced face down in restraints—most often when being “hogtied” or “suitcased” with wrists and ankles tied together, the group said. 1999 Greg Burton Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) (Nov. 23) “Weber Deputies May Have Been Warned of Hogtying’s Dangers” p. B1: Hogtying—called “suitcasing” by officers on the street—is a controversial maneuver banned by a growing number of police agencies stung by the sudden death of otherwise healthy suspects. 2003 William R. Tracey The Human Resources Glossary (Dec. 29) 3 ed., p. 646: Suitcasing A traditional method of delivering classroom training to groups of workers at remote locations. All materials required to conduct the training are packaged and either sent or hand-carried to the training location where they are used by a “traveling” trainer. 2006 Scott Gutierrez Olympian (Wash.) (Jan. 17) “Police say jailed man had hidden drugs in him”: He confessed to authorities that he had “suitcased” the drug.…Suitcasing is a street term for concealing contraband in body cavities. *2007 UTStarcom (Aug. 8) “Hangzhou PRC Training Facility”: A hands-on lab can be “suitcased” to a customer specified location. This traveling lab provides an environment to conduct formal classroom training in essentially the same environment as would be provided at a UTStarcom’s training center. Due to the complexity of the lab set-up for certain technologies, suitcased training at customer locations for some classes may not be offered.
1984 Bill Mitchell Corvette: A Piece of the Action—Impressions of the Marque and the Mystique, 1953-1985 p. 26: We all tried to out-fin each other back in the Fifties, and we let the fat look get out of hand in the Sixties and early Seventies, when the industry got so carried away with turn-under and tumblehome that some of the cars started looking like horseshoe crabs on roller skates. 1990 Jim Kenzie Toronto Star (Canada) (Oct. 6) “Toyota Tercel goes aero for the ’90s” p. SA2 J1: The Tercel’s severe “tumblehome”—the deep curvature of the roof merging into the sides of the car—brings the corners of the cabin threateningly close to your ears. 2007 Phil Patton New York Times (Apr. 1) “Body Language: How to Talk the Designers’ Talk”: With cars, words and metal share territory: each brand’s vocabulary of shapes is collectively known as its design language. The beltline divides the greenhouse, or glassed-in upper body, from the portion that extends down from the window sills.…The angle of the windshield is known as its rake—an extreme tilt is said to be fast—while the inward angle of the side greenhouse windows is called the tumblehome.
1972 Syracuse Herald-Journal (New York) (June 17) “Chiefs drop 2; now 6th” (in Charleston, West Virginia) p. 11: “We’re down right now and scuffling. But, we’ll come back.” The Chiefs are sixth, one-half game out of fourth. 1986 Houston Chronicle (May 25) “Club sputters against East Division clubs” p. 8: We’ll have our hot streaks, then we’ll scuffle along. We could have had a better home stand, but we’ll just have to keep banging away. 1989 Steve Pivovar Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) (July 16) “Randolph Says Guidry Survived on Heart Alone” p. 3C: The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers scuffled through the first half of the season. Manager Tom Lasorda said he is growing weary of hearing about how hard his players are trying. 1996 Mel Antonen, Rod Beaton USA Today (July 11) “Eyes on Braves, Yankees in second half” p. 04C: Pulsipher is out for the year, Wilson will come off the DL as early as next week and Isringhausen is scuffling for wins. 2001 Sporting News (May 28) “National League” p. 44: RHP Jay Powell was scuffling the first month of the season. He was coming off a poor 2000 during which he spent most of the time on the DL. He had season-ending shoulder surgery in August and had a spotty spring. 2007 John Donovan SI.com (Aug. 3) “Inside Baseball: History on hold”: In the vernacular of baseball managers everywhere, Barry Bonds is scuffling a little bit right now. Or, if you prefer, in the vernacular of Dodgers fans, he’s sucking.
[1990 [Greg Garland] Usenet: alt.angst (Oct. 4) “Re: apathy”: Angu-apatheism—not caring whether or not there is a God, but still
wondering what you did that has Him so pissed off at you. ] 1991 [Steve Reiser] Usenet: alt.atheism (Sept. 11) “Apatheism”: I can’t remember if was a post or e-mail, but one of the more interesting **-theisms I’ve seen is “apatheism.” An apatheist would be: one who couldn’t cares less whether there is a god or not, because its totally irrelevant to our existence here anyway. 2003 Jonathan Rauch Atlantic (May 1) “Let It Be”: Apatheism—a disinclination to care all that much about one’s own religion, and an even stronger disinclination to care about other people’s—may or may not be something new in the world, but its modern flowering, particularly in ostensibly pious America, is worth getting excited about. 2007 [dgriffith] Freakonomics Blog (Aug. 2) “Cut God Some Slack”: I think you’ll find that the stance of simply not caring much about God or religion (“apatheism” in the jokey parlance) is much less common than you imagine. It seems to be growing as people get wealthier, but a depressingly predominate chunk of humanity believes that God is indeed worth caring about, one way or another.
1957 Bob Addie @ Boston Washington Post and Times Herald (May 14) “Bob Addie’s Column…” p. A20: In baseball, you’re supposed to “Cadillac” around the bases…The expression the ballplayers’ own for savoring the sweet cheers of the crowd by trotting majestically around the bases. 1959 Washington Post and Times Herald (Oct. 2) “‘Greatest Thrill’ Says Big Klu” (in Chicago) p. D1: I knew that second one (another 2-run smash in the fourth) was going. I was so sure that I hot-dogged it around the bases. You know what I mean—I gave it that home run trot—sort of Cadillacked my way around the bases. 1989 A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants “John K. Crellin, Jane Philpott” p. 22: Bass is correct in saying that too many people go “cadillacking” along with herbs and take large doses. 1989 Seattle Times (Aug. 28) “Coming Apart Or Pulling Together?” p. E1: He moved to his right to catch a fly out, but Greg Gagne surprisingly tagged from first base and reached second when Griffey’s threw was too soft and wide. “I don’t like him ‘Cadillacing’ like that,” he said. “It may be an insignificant play but a guy can’t take it for granted that just because they have a five-run lead doesn’t mean they’re not going to be aggressive.” 1992 R.B. Fallstrom Los Angeles Daily News (Apr. 5) “Guerrero Is No Joker As Cardinals’ Left Fielder” p. S3: Center fielder Ray Lankford also has noticed that Guerrero can handle his territory. “He’s not out there Cadillacking,” said Lankford, using a euphemism for loafing. 2005 Fair Disclosure Wire (May 10) “Q1 2005 Parallel Petroleum Corporation Earnings Conference Call - Final”: What a good well. We’re sitting there, cadillacing at 8 million a day and they are going to co-mingle on upper zone. And we really don’t know what that upper zone is capable of doing, but if its 50% of what the lower one is doing, you’re looking at a well that’s going to produce in excess of 10 million a day. [2005 Dina Cappiello Houston Chronicle (Texas) (Aug. 7) “Latest BP blast site had record of inadequate maintenance”: “People who work on that unit, the operators say, ‘We have that thing Cadillacing,’” Geary said. “It’s not a fair assertion that the unit was undermaintained.”] 2007 [Galley] Autoblog (July 19) “Auto Lexicon: Top 5 four-wheeled metaphors”: When one of our tablet press operators has a easy night with no problems, they are referred to as “Cadillacing it.”
1945 Cedar Rapids Tribune (Iowa) (Aug. 23) “Firemen Will Ask Council for Kelly Days” p. 1: The proposal that fire fighters be given every 16th day off was made to the city council.…The request for Kelly days, for which Cedar Rapids fire fights ask only 22 a year instead of the 24 or more enjoyed by other departments, was not specifically denied.…Iowa cities which now provide Kelly days for their fire departments are: Sioux City, 3 days a month; Des Moines, 2 days; Davenport, 2 days; Mason City, 1 day; Burlington, 4 days; Ottumwa, 1 day; Council Bluffs, 1 day; Waterloo, 1 day; Keokuk, 1 day. 1957 Winona Daily News (Minnesota) (May 23) “Board Planning Fire Station Warning Lights” p. 3: The delegation…explained that firemen work one day and have the next day off with every 10th day designated as a “Kelly” day or day off. This schedule is followed except during the vacation period when the Kelly days are granted every 12th day. 1985 Lindy Washburn @ Passaic-Morris The Record (New Jersey) (March 13) “Clifton Asking N.J. To Allow Delay On Budget” p. C03: Elimination of “Kelly days” for police officers. These are extra days off when the officers change shifts. Two years ago, Kelly days were eliminated for senior officers on desk jobs who were not changing shifts. 1987 Charlotte Sutton @ Brooksville St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Aug. 28) “Firefighters’ union, county begin talks on district contract” p. 1: Kelly days: This term refers to one shift off with pay every 14th shift for all employees who work 24-hour shifts. Northwest firefighters work a 24-hour shift, followed by 48 hours off. 2001 csy113 Firehouse Forums (July 2) “Kelly Day”: My department uses the phrase kelly time. FLSA allows firefighters to work up to 204 hours within a 28 day period without requiring the employer to pay overtime. Anything over 204 must be paid at time and one half. All firemen at my station are assigned to a 24 hour shift and must work 216 hours within a 28 day period. We are required to take 12 hours of kelly time off within that 28 days to avoid overtime. 2003 Darla McFarland Examiner (Blue Springs, Missouri) (July 17) “City, firefighter talks are off”: The city has proposed new procedures to allow firefighters to voluntarily work on “Kelly Days” or scheduled days off that firefighters take each pay period to keep from exceeding federal labor laws on overtime. Those working on a Kelly Day, however, would still be counted as off for scheduling purposes. 2007 James V. Franco The Record (Troy, New York) (July 31) “Firefighters OK contract with city”: Also, anyone paying 15 percent of their health insurance will get an additional “Kelly Day,” the term for an extra day off a firefighter has the option to take or work for time and a half. 2007 Ed Kemmick Billings Gazette (Montana) (Aug. 27) “Lawsuit leads to long, complicated legal battle”: Under what is known as the “Kelly shift,” adopted by the Fire Department in 1969, firefighters worked a 27-day rotation consisting of one 24-hour shift, followed by 48 hours off. After repeating that cycle seven times, they got six days off in row.
*2000 [A.J. (Adam Pastula)] Adventure-Geek.com (Colorado) (Mar. 11) “Odyssey Adventure Race 3/11/2000”: We chose to take a gamble and take an old logging road deep into the forest, then bushwhack up the steep hillside to reach the Parkway.…After about a mile and a half uphill walk/ride up past a cemetery, we entered the woods again and bike-whacked for about a mile until we reached an old hiking trail that wasn’t on the map. 2003 Raid the North (May 3-4) “Hope Launches Western Canada Adventure Racing Season”: “Bike-wack”…The competitors trekked through the trees to the second CP, another 12 km’s away, picked up their bikes at this remote drop point and mountain biked onward. 2003 John Yip @ Canada Runningfree.com (July 17-26) “Eco-Challenge North American Championships”: The trail we proceeded down was overgrown and required us to hike-a-bike / bikewhack a bit. This section made me think of a similar trail in a race. 2004 [birch] @ Michigan Thebackpacker.com (May 9) “Adventure Race Report (dhutch&birch;)”: Hit CP6 withouyt a hitch and headed to CP7 then a “bike whack” that would take us across a river and through a dense woods.…Most teams would back track the whole bike whack. We took roads. 2005 John Yip MyNextRace.com (Mar. 8) “Primal Quest Race Report: Day 3 – Bike-Whack from hell”: A straight bike-whack down through steep and unforgiving terrain. We lost our only odometer, a niterider battery pack, and I broke a spoke. It was nasty stuff.….We bikewhacked again and found no bridge. *2006 TrailBlazer Adventure Racing Club (Aug. 1) “Midnight Rush”: Traveling off trail with your bike (bike whacking). 2007 Shawn Wenger Kamloops This Week (British Columbia, Canada) (July 29) “A Golden time with very little sleep”: Unfortunately, water levels created a washout that changed the face of that trail and left us what is affectionately known as “bike-wacking.” This is similar to “bush-wacking,” but involves not only trying to drag oneself through thick branches and undergrowth, but also an unruly bike in a constant tangle with said undergrowth.
[*1901-1920 Ezra Read Postman’s Holiday (Le facteur en ballade) (London, United Kingdom): Postman’s Holiday (Le facteur en ballade) Ragtime] 1928 San Mateo Times and Daily News Leader (California) (Aug. 31) “Dean of Shipping” p. 10: He is still busy with his life work, which is the promotion of American shipping. He does take a vacation now and then, but it is like the postman’s holiday. He takes it on a ship. 1936 Time (July 20) “Postman’s Holiday”: Postman’s Holiday…A postman who takes a walk on his holiday is a joke. Last week the nation chuckled when it was revealed that Postmaster General James” Aloysius Farley had been granted a payless leave of absence from his Cabinet post, would spend his new leisure at politics. 1940 Philip D. Jordan Ohio History (July) “An Ohio Surgeon In Paris, 1835-1836” vol. 49, no. 3, p. 273: Wolfley devoted little time to anything outside his work. Even his sight-seeing verged on the “postman’s holiday,” for his walks usually ended at the Cluny Museum, where he examined Guillaume Dupuytren’s medical collection, or at the cemetery of Pere Lachaise or the Morgue. 1998 James B. Spencer Training Retrievers for the Marshes and Meadows (May) 2 ed., p. 160: One weekend Dave took a postman’s holiday to watch a herding dog trial.
1968 Gordon Shipman The Family Coordinator (Jan.) “The Psychodynamics of Sex Education” vol. 17, no. 1, p. 8: For this milestone in male maturation I suggest one of two terms: we might call it primus ejactulatus from the Latin or spermarche from the Greek. I prefer the latter, which means “the beginning of sperm.” 1999 Richard D. Blondell; Michael B. Foster; Kamlesh C. Dave American Family Physician (July 1) “Disorders of Puberty” vol. 60, no. 1, p. 209: In boys, LH stimulates testosterone production by the Leydig cells and, after spermarche, FSH supports the maturation of spermatozoa. 2004 S. Yamuna The Hindu (India) (Sept. 11) “Teen tango” p. 04: For e.g. a boy is capable of fatherhood from the time he achieves spermarche i.e. nocturnal emissions.
1994 Gary Taubes Sciece (Mar. 25) “Microwave mappers sweat details” vol. 263, no. 5154, p. 1682: As a result, theorists haven’t been able to resist interpreting these statistically suspect results. It’s an activity that Neil Turok of Princeton University (himself a theorist) describes as “ambulance chasing—running after these experiments hoping one of them will disprove some theory.” 1999 Alastair Sarre Ecos (July-September) “Ecology takes on the human touch” p. 40: Ambulance-chasing?…Some say that the division has become an “ambulance-chaser,” pursuing funding opportunities regardless of their relevance to the core work of the division. 1999 Pennie Taylor Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) (Oct. 17) “GM link of scientist who discredited safety fears” p. 1: Gatehouse has accused the paper’s authors of conducting “a piece of ambulance-chasing research that is coming in on the coat-tails of the GM controversy.” 2002 AgBioWorld (Apr. 2) “Nature Disavows Mexican Maize Article!!, Cottoning on in India”: Scientists sensationalize stuff because they get noticed… They’re staking out their territory, causing alarm, so that there’s more funding in that area.…There is more and more a trend to what some people call “ambulance chasing” science. 2007 Rick DelVecchio San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Mar. 22) “Professor urges social priorities in BP institute”: Socially determined objectives must thus lead and direct this effort, not become relegated to “ambulance chasing,” following behind a series of technically compelling yet socially questionable discoveries, papers or patents. 2007 Amar C. Bakshi Washington Post (June 26) “Why Clinical Research in India Outpaces U.S.”: “Clinical research and translational research is down 70% in the U.S.,” he tells me, laying out two primary explanations: First, he blames “the lobbies, restrictions, confidentiality problems, insurance companies regulating what needs to be done, what can be done, what cannot be done…the usual ambulance chasing that occurs.” 2007 Dennis Overbye New York Times (July 24) “At Fermilab, the Race Is on for the ‘God Particle’”: In 1977, Steven Weinberg, then two years shy of the Nobel Prize in Physics, decided to do a little of what some theorists call “ambulance chasing.” He heard a rumor, while spending a year at Stanford, that collisions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory were spitting out weird triplets of particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons. Dr. Weinberg canceled reservations at a lodge in Yosemite National Park to spend the weekend with his colleague Benjamin Lee, trying to concoct a theory to explain the trimuons. But the only theory he and Dr. Lee could come up with was ugly. A few weeks later it turned out that the triplet effect wasn’t true.
1987 John Fiske Television Culture p. 29: After the interview is finished, the camera is then turned onto the interviewer who asks some of the questions again and gives a series of “noddies,” that is, reaction shots, nods, smiles, or expressions of sympathetic listening. These are to disguise later edits in the interviewee’s speech. When section of this speech is edited out, the cut is disguised by inserting a noddy,” thus hiding the fact that any editing of the speaker’s words has occurred. Without the “noddy,” the visuals would show an obvious “jump” that would reveal the edit. 1988 Dianna Simmonds Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (July 23) “In-Depth Probe Of Sonia’s Scoundrel-Hunting Techniques” p. 68: She is queen of the indignant snort, the appalled noddy shot, the last disgusted scripted throw-away line. 1992 Peter Luck Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (May 18) “5th Column”: So how can you see both the interviewer asking his/her questions and the interviewee? The solution is a device called the reverse, the cutaway or the “noddy.” After the interview is over the camera and lights are shifted to another position, the interviewer asks the questions all over again and these re-shot questions are reinserted during editing. For reaction shots the interviewer simply looks where the interviewee was, or still is, and tries to appear as if he were talking to the person he’s just interviewed. 2007 Iain Macwhirter Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) (July 22) “The BBC. A former insiders view”: Whenever you see an taped interviewer nodding, smiling or reacting with a knowing or quizzical eyebrow, you are generally watching what are called “noddies”—reaction shots filmed after the interview takes place.
1942 Charles G. Sampas Lowell Sun (Massachusetts) (Oct. 30) “Calvacade” p. 21: “One man makes for the stairway, covered by bullets of the others shooting ahead of him. At the same time two or three men can enter the house and begin to ‘mouse hole’ into the next forom from the secured ground floor, while the others are securing the upper floors. Then they ‘mouse hole’ through the upper rooms.” Mouse holing, says Levy, is simple work with a pick or crowbar. You first make a small hole, toss a grenade through it, enlarge the hole and toss a second through it from inside one room or building to the next, thus making reasonably sure of disposing of everybody in the adjoining rooms. 1994 Wade Hemsworth @ Ortona, Italy Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) (May 11) “Helping to honor fallen friends” p. B3: Eventually they took the medieval town on the other side by fighting from house to house developing a technique called “mouseholing.” Soldiers would clear one house and smash through the wall into the next until the town was taken. 2000 John W. Karagosian Infantry (Sept. 1) “The rifle platoon in MOUT” vol. 90, no. 3, p. 23-30: If the friendly and enemy-held buildings are adjoining, “mouse-holing” with demolitions is preferable. If the buildings are not adjoining, we should use AT4s, light antiarmor weapons (LAWs), or other munitions from the safety of our own building, instead of going into the open to emplace explosives by hand. 2004 Pat Lang CNN (May 1) “CNN Live Saturday”: You avoid, at all costs, going down the length of streets or going across big wide squares and things like that, and what you is you use the buildings as terrain as though they were hills or something, and typically what you’ll do is you’ll get into a building at one end of the block, and you’ll go from building to building by blowing holes in the walls inside with a process that’s called “mouse holing,” so you don’t have to go in the street, because if you go in the street you’re vulnerable to weapons that have been sighted along the streets. 2007 Charles Graham Wigan Today (United Kingdom) (July 21) “Soldier honoured for bravery”: As part of 59 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, attached to the Royal Marines” 3 Commando Brigade in Helmand province, he used his specialist explosives skills to carry out a procedure known as “mouseholing”—getting into buildings by blowing a hole in a wall.
United Kingdom.
Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion.
Slang. Said as “sixteen-sixty-one.” This term is used regularly by Christa D’Souza in the London Times, though it’s uncertain if she coined it.
2005 Christa D'Souza Times (London, United Kingdom) (Dec. 4) “1661;Is 45 really that old?” p. Style 5: The technical term for this—where you look pullable from behind, with your slashed mini, straggly Joss Stone hair and macrame ankle bracelet, but when swivelled around, look more like someone eligible to collect a pension—is 1661. (Get it? Sixteen from the back, 61 from the front.) Oh, dear. Perhaps that’s what I am: the ultimate 1661. Yet isn’t a certain amount of self-delusion necessary in order to cope with the horrible, galloping inevitability of old age? 2006 Mia Freedman Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia) (Feb. 12) “When mum is most definitely not the word”: I’ve always detested the expression “mutton dressed as lamb.” It’s misogynist, mean and women are not meat; even Sam Kekovich would concur with that. But there’s a new version of it that describes women who retain hairstyles or wardrobes suited to a different life stage—women such as Melanie Griffith and Faye Dunaway. The term is “1661”—a woman who looks 16 from behind, 61 from the front. 2006 [nettymania] Nettymania (United Kingdom) (Oct. 17) “1661 and the fourth bell”: Great i am now a 1661 and that is only a compliment from behind. 2007 [Euphrosene Labon] Delusions of Divinity? (United Kingdom) (Jan. 25): Carole Malone mentioned the 1661 syndrome—where men think you’re attractive from the back (16)…and then back off when they see your face (61). This issue is supposed to affect all women over the age of probably 35. *2007 Grumpy old woman (Barnstaple, Devon, United Kingdom) (Feb. 24): I’m a 1661 woman—sixteen from behind, sixty one from the front. 2007 Lisa Armstrong Times (London, England) (July 18) “Age-old dilemmas”: The 1661 syndrome—whereby a woman (and it almost always is a woman) looks like a bouncy-tressed, pert-bottomed teenager from behind and a grandmother from the front—has become a cultural joke.
1991 Jan Glidewell St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (Apr. 19) “Hitching a dream to a rural railroad” p. 1: I scour around places like Home Depot or Scotty’s,…and I buy their “oops” paint…you know, mixing accidents. I pick it up cheap, and when you need 750 gallons of paint, cheap is nice. 1995 Al Carrell, Kelly Carrell Dallas Morning News (Texas) (Jan. 20) “What to do when cleaning a ceiling is a tall order” p. 3G: I wanted to do some interior painting, but a good can of paint or two is a little more than I could afford. I noticed what my paint dealer labeled as “oops” paint set to the side. It was paint that he made a mistake mixing. 1996 [Bob] Usenet: alt.aquaria (Nov. 10) “Re: Painting back of tank?”: I went to Home Depot and found a rack of oops paint. Mixed but never bought. I think I paid less than $2 for a quart. I was going to use black but only found a very dark purple. 1998 [Kevin] Usenet: alt.home.repair (Apr. 21) “Re: Home Depot Stories?”: Just for the record, that can of stain should have never been put on the shelf. It should have been “Oops’d” and put with all the Oops paint, marked down to like $1 or something. 1999 [Sparky] Usenet: alt.gothic.fashion (July 4) “Re: Interior Paint?”: I’ve had good luck finding the RL line at a discount on the “oops paint” shelves at Home Depot—apparently some folks think they want bright gold or metallic walls and then decide it looks too much like a Wild West whorehouse. 2007 Rubén Rosario Pioneer Press (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota) (July 18) “Gang scrawls fade as mural grows”: Hirschfield’s paint store donated what is called in the trade “oops” paint—paint that customers brought back or was improperly mixed or is substandard.
Spain.
Health. [Usually credited as being coined in Castillian Spanish as “yoga ibérico” by Camilo José Cela.]
1979 Camilo José Cela Los Sueños Vanos, Los Angeles Curiosos p. 76: Después de comer, mejor dicho, después de haberme echado lo que los patriotas decimos el yoga ibérico y los pro yanquis siesta, me voy a una tertulia. 2000 Seattle Times (Washington) (Mar. 31) “Spaniards have perfected the siesta ritual” (in Madrid, Spain) p. A20: The long break has been traditional in many countries with stifling midday heat, but Spaniards claim to have done the most to perfect the ritual, which Camilo Jose Cela, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, calls “our Iberian yoga.” 2007 Elizabeth Nash @ Madrid, Spain Sunday Herald (Glasgow, Scotland) (July 14) “Waking up to the fact that the siesta won’t lie down”: Spaniards persist in enjoying an afternoon snooze whenever they get the chance, in defiance of efforts to shorten Spain’s working day and match its idiosyncratic hours with the rest of Europe. Now, rather than dismiss the lunchtime nap as a lazy throwback that subverts the working day, enterprising companies are bowing to the inevitable and accepting it. The siesta is being re-invented as “Iberian yoga”—a cool adjunct to modern life that promotes wellbeing and alertness in today’s stressful world.
United Kingdom.
Media.
Slang. [From the noun “pap,” shortened from and meaning “paparazzi.”] As pointed out in the comments, the etymological information given in the first citation is incorrect.
[1992 Giles Elgood @ London, United Kingdom (Reuters) (Aug. 20) “Pap Snaps Embarrass The Rich And Famous”: Pap Snaps Embarrass The Rich And Famous.…Paparazzi—the Italian name comes from the sound of popping flashbulbs—need incredible persistence and the hide of a rhinoceros. Irate subjects snapped in compromising situations often take a swing at a cameraman.] [1994 Cal McCrystal Sunday Age (Melbourne, Australia) (Sept. 25) “Indecent Exposure” p. 2: “The paps,” as the freelance and tabloid snappers are known, are always manoeuvring for the embarrassing disclosure, just as Bennett’s dogging of the mounted monarch was in the hope of photographing her falling off.] [2002 Jessica Callan, Eva Simpson, Bryony Gordon Mirror (United Kingdom) (Jan. 4) “3am - Papping Out” p. 23: 3am - Papping Out.…Dane Bowers, the singer-turned-DJ, has been posing with a “mystery” blonde who exposed a breast for eager paparazzi.] 2002 Katie Derham Times (United Kingdom) (Feb. 22) “Play by the PR rules”: When you see paparazzi pictures in the paper, it is impossible to know how traumatic being “papped” can be until you have been through it yourself. 2002 Ali Stokes South Wales Echo (United Kingdom) (Sept. 7) “Sun not shining on angel” p. 9: Schoolgirl millionairess Charlotte Church got her first real taste of being “papped” when photos of her and her “bit of rough” boyfriend were splashed all over The Sun. 2005 Sky Showbiz (June 1) “Armed And Dangerous”: Super-skinny Teri Hatcher has been papped pounding the pavements with dumbbells in hand, making sure her forearms stay as trim as her pipe-cleaner pins. 2007 First Post (United Kingdom) (July 16) “Meet Moherty and friends”: Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller. Inspired by the burgeoning “best friend” relationship between the two, recently “papped” together at every opportunity.
2004 Evan Wright Village Voice (Nov. 24-30) “Dead-Check in Falluja”: “They teach us to do dead-checking when we’re clearing rooms,” an enlisted Marine recently returned from Iraq told me. “You put two bullets into the guy’s chest and one in the brain. But when you enter a room where guys are wounded you might not know if they’re alive or dead. So they teach us to dead-check them by pressing them in the eye with your boot, because generally a person, even if he’s faking being dead, will flinch if you poke him there. If he moves, you put a bullet in the brain. You do this to keep the momentum going when you’re flowing through a building. You don’t want a guy popping up behind you and shooting you.” What I’d seen on that road outside of Baquba on April 9 was a dead-check. The Marine who fired into that Toyota with wounded men inside didn’t want anybody shooting at us as we went past. 2006 Department of Defense U.S. Marine Corps News (Feb. 10) “Marine recalls Silver Star actions” (in Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay): Once reaching the caves, Boada teamed up with Sgt. Robert R. Campbell, a squad leader, and began searching the different caves with the other Marines. This was when Marines heard Lance Cpl. Nicholas C. Kirven identify a dead body. He called out and Cpl. Richard P. Schoener came down to provide security for a dead check. 2006 Bill Nemitz Portland Press Herald (Maine) (Mar. 21) “Be sharp, stay alive ; Role-playing simulations help Marines learn the importance of keeping their guard up” p. A1: “And how are you going to do your dead check?” persisted Lutz. “With a notional (make-believe) kick in the (groin), sir,” Derosby said. The oft-used technique quickly reveals whether an insurgent is truly dead or just playing possum. “No, wait,” said Lutz, striding forward. “Let me show you how to do a dead check in Iraq.” Grabbing Derosby’s M-16 rifle, Lutz pointed the barrel at the Iraqi’s chest. “Bang! Bang!” he shouted, then handed the rifle back to Derosby. “That’s how you do a dead check in Iraq.” Derosby nodded. “Bang! Bang!” he repeated. 2006 Dow Jones International News @ Camp Pendleton, California (Dow Jones International News) (Oct. 6) “Navy Medic Testifies Against Marines In Iraq Murder”: I witnessed Sgt. (Lawrence) Hutchins dead check the man and fire three rounds into the man’s head.…Then Cpl. (Trent) Thomas fired seven to 10 rounds in to the man’s head. 2007 Tony Perry @ Camp Pendleton, California Los Angeles Times (July 15) “Marine says beatings urged in Iraq”: Lopezromo said a procedure called “dead-checking” was routine. If Marines entered a house where a man was wounded, instead of checking to see whether he needed medical aid, they shot him to make sure he was dead, he testified.
Australia.
Derogatory.
Slang.
1997 Steve Perkin, Antony Catalano, Melissa Fyfe The Age (Melbourne, Australia) (Mar. 20) “Metropolitan” p. 16: Police speak…Nuff nuff a crazed lunatic. 1998 Melissa Ryan The Age (Melbourne, Australia) (Apr. 30) “Mixing It Up On The Netball Court” p. 18: And the team’s name? “It was a nickname, as in, just a nuff nuff who was hopeless, who can’t throw the ball or catch,” says O’Regan. 1999 Leigh Paatsch Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) (Jan. 21) “As bad as it gets”: That’s an insult to the true fashion-unconscious Aussie dag, who wouldn’t be seen wearing a brown velour tracksuit near these nuff-nuff characters. 1999 Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia) (May 13) “Movie Heaven & Mirth” p. 40: Getting It Wrong: Mr Sandler and his nuff-nuff voice in The Waterboy. 2002 Andrew Daddo Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia) (Dec. 10) “Boys in Bandland”: You’d have to be a complete nuff nuff to put an unopened tin of baked beans in for 10 minutes, wouldn’t you? Everyone knows they’re done in two. 2007 Amber Rais Cyclingnews.com (July 3) “The Amber Rais diary 2007: Le Coupe du Monde a Montreal”: Rachel simplified for us: “If you’re chewing on your handlebars to stay in the break, you’re probably with good breakaway partners who will make the break stick.” Helen clarified: “Yes, and if you’re able to sing while you climb, then you’re riding with a bunch of nuff-nuffs.”
California.
Los Angeles.
English.
Spanglish.
Spanish.
Slang.
Abbreviation.
Nickname. Especially common among Hispanic Angelenos.
1973 Revista de la Universidad de México (Feb. 6) vol. XXVII, no. 6, @ Chicanos: Antología histórica y literaria (1980) Salvador Rodríguez del Pino “En Idioma De Aztlán: Una Lengua Que Surge” p. 129: Desde el porche de mi chante, en mi barrio de Eastlos, Aztlán, watcho a mis carnales cruziar por los cales rumbo a sus cantones despues del jale: vatos cabuliando con sus jainas, pachucos fuliando afuera de la marketa de don Charlie, agüelitas con chavalios de la mano y un bonche de raza que sale de los boses que vienen del daontaon. Toda esta es mi Raza, alegre, orgullosa y muy jaladora aunque la placa siempre los este´ tisiando. 1993 [Zita Maria Evensen] Usenet: rec.arts.poems (Oct. 18) “this is the city [reply to jmj] /z.”: Gunfires of east los/everberate in san fernando. 1994 [Lloyd Sanchez] Usenet: soc.culture.mexican.american (Jun 26) “Re: Excuse Me !!!”: I’m a 42 year old vato from east los with four children and a love of Jesus Christ. 1996 Raul Franco Usenet: la.transportation (July 2) “Re: Crenshaw shut down on Sunday nights?”: Same thing was done in the 1970’s, early ’80’s on Whittier Blvd. in East Los, and is currently being done in Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd. 1996 [Raul Franco] Usenet: alt.california (Aug. 14) “Re: Decline of LA”: Go to EastLos and then drive to the West side and you’ll see a very big difference, not only in police conduct, but citations and so forth. 2002 [Frank S] Usenet: alt.marketing.online.ebay (Mar. 28) “Re: *Seeking associate to auction massive inventory on ebay”: My guess is you could unload it all to another entrepreneur, or franchise it to sellers at swapmeets in EasLos and the border area. 2004 NPR: All Things Considered (Mar. 15) “Profile: Problems at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where virtually all of the students are Mexican-Americans”: RUBIN: I’m like, “Oh, a Latino kid from Eastlos going to New York.” SANCHEZ: Eastlos? RUBIN: Yeah, East Los Angeles, going to New York. 2007 Jaime Cárdenas Los Angeles Times (July 12) “Arreola remembers humble beginnings while boxing stock rises”: Arreola grew up in “Big, bad EasLos,” as he called it, one of six children. He lived in Huntington Park, going to boxing gyms with his father, Augustin, an amateur boxer.
1990 Gordon Matthews American Banker (Nov. 21) “Anticipated Loan Sales by Banks Put Bloom Back on Sallie Mae Series: 3” vol. 155, no. 227, p. 1: “Given that the environment favors such action at the large, troubled, earnings-strapped banks, the possibility looms for a large ‘bluebird’ sale,” he said, referring to a transaction on highly favorable terms to the buyer. 1991 Sandra L. Kurtzig, Tom Parker CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up p. 88 @ (May, 1994): In exchange for this “bluebird”—a sale that flies in the window—I said I’d have to have access to a 3000. 1992 Wall Street Transcript (Dec. 21) “Roundtable Discussion Audio Video Home Products” vol. CXVIII, no. 12,: Welch got rid of a strategic albratross, got a strategic bluebird, got essentially $1 billion in the hopper, and got out of the consumer electronics business. 1996 Lawrence E. Koslow Business Abroad: A Quick Guide to International Business Transactions (Apr. 15) p. 60: The flip side of this is the “blue bird” sale, where the product is offered at, say, 100 with full expectation that it will sell for 90, but the customer either pays list or selects several high-priced options. 2002 FD (Fair Disclosure) Wire (July 25) “Q1 2003 California Micro Devices Earnings Conference Call - Final”: That actually was a bit of a blue bird, I’d have to say.…They had actually as a customer been dormant for some time. And then apparently their business must have started picking up because all of a sudden they came back and wanted quite a bit of product. And so last quarter we had a—what I would call a catch up quarter, and I would not expect the ongoing business to be at the same level. 2005 Marc Chabot Winning New Customers (Apr. 15) p. 130: Blue Bird—A sale that is made as a result of a customer or prospect contacting a company to purchase its product. Very little effort is required to win the account. 2005 Tony Beshara The Job Search Solution (Nov. 30) p. 151: Her quota production is correct, but since she was the first salesperson in the company, she got a lot of “blue-bird” sales that came to her because she was the first, and for a while, the only salesperson in the company [2006 Voxant FD (Fair Disclosure) Wire (Feb. 8) “Q4 2005 PolyOne Corporation Earnings Conference Call - Final”: The pre-tax number was—well, depending on how you slice it, the pre-tax number was 8 or 9, and I would say that, you know, on a non, kind of a bluebird basis, that number is probably closer to 5.] 2006 Voxant FD (Fair Disclosure) Wire (Apr. 27) “Q1 2006 I-many, Inc. Earnings Conference Call - Final”: We took a fairly conservative first that did not include the so-called bluebird deal that traditionally this company has had over the last year. Last year it was premier. You know, in previous years, it’s been companies like Lilly that there’s always the one mega deal, so you obviously don’t plan for it. You don’t budget for it. But, you know, we know there is always one lurking around someplace. 2007 Vinnie Mirchandani deal architect (Florida) (Jan. 15) “To Kill a Bluebird”: In sales lingo, bluebirds are those opportunities that fly in the window with the salesperson not having to lift a finger. In some sourcing deals I do, I get the opportunity to deliver bluebirds—at least get some vendors in the long list.
United Kingdom.
Derogatory.
Slang. [Perhaps from “twat” + “wazzock,” both also meaning “a stupid or disagreeable person.” “Wazzock” is recorded slightly earlier than “twazzock.”]
1991 Andrew Moncur Guardian (United Kingdom) (Mar. 22) “Diary”: Raise your right hand, please, if you think the most probable response is: “Gladly. Please find enclosed my cheque…” Thank you. Now, raise your left hand if you feel it’s more likely to be: “Right twazzock….” 1994 Francis Wheen Guardian (United Kingdom) (May 25) “The Typically British Way Of Bastardy” p. 7: All he can do is invite us to examine our responses to two statements: “Your son-in-law needs a loan,” versus “Your daughter’s boyfriend neads a loan.” According to Murray, “that’s the difference marriage makes.” What a twazzock. No wonder even Mrs Thatcher gave Murray short shrift when he first surfaced over here five years ago. 2004 Express (United Kingdom) (Jan. 27) “Hickey” p. 7: If that geet fat twazock Prescott comes heah with even mowa bureaucrats, ah’ll soon tell the **** where ter gan! 2004 N.M. Browne Basilisk (May 7) p. 162: Here he was acting like a right twazzock, too uncertain to take risks. 2006 [Pauk] Foo Fighters Postboard (Nov. 27) “100% Foo Free”: The people who kick up a fuss and blame the airport for making them late or forgetting their passport or for generally being a twazzock have to remortgage their house to buy a ticket on the next flight. 2007 Daily Mail (United Kingdom) (July 9) “Jacqui Smith could never be mistaken for Brian Sewell”: Speaker Martin (the libel lawyers’ friend) allowed him leeway but if Mr Prescott is not more succinct next time he may find himself being called to order. Or, as they say in the Prescott household, “shaddup yer great twazzock.”
1987 Bob Smyth Building Design (Sept. 11) p. 26: Papers already submitted to the Burgess Park Steering Group, a joint subcommittee of councillors from the planning and leisure committees, indicate variations on the former GLC greenprint. Early this year when the new leisure and recreation department came into operation, there was a tussle between it and the planning and development department—which had succeeded in retaining the council’s landscape design section—as to which should have control of park development. 1995 Minnesota House of Representatives (Apr. 21) “State Of Minnesota Seventy-Ninth Session—1995: Article 14 Environmental Education”: “State plan” means “Greenprint for Minnesota: A State Plan for Environmental Education.” 2000 [Michele S. Byers] @ New Jersey (Jan. 12) “The State We’re In: NJ Saves 1,000 Acres In The Delaware Bay Watershed” @ Usenet: nj.general (Jan. 10, 2000) Phil Reynolds “Garden State Environews 000110”: In 1998 we published Charting a Course for the Delaware Bay Watershed (available from NJCF). It serves as a “greenprint” for conservation work in the Bayshore. 2007 Laurel Tuohy Litchfield County Times (Connecticut) (July 5) “Tim Abbott Talks the Talk”: The Greenprint is a joint effort of the Trust for Public and the Cornwall-based Housatonic Valley Association, which, according to HVA’s Web site “are working together to initiate a community-based mapping, networking and land conservation process in the Housatonic River watershed in Litchfield County. This process—called greenprinting—seeks to inventory protected open space across the area, and in partnership with local land trusts and government, identify new ways to finance and protect land.”
1908 Washington Post Magazine (Jan. 19) “Precautions of Railroads to Prevent Death at the Throttle” (in New York) p. 1: On the subway and elevated lines it is found in the nearest doorman and a “dead man’s switch.” 1937 Andy Hamilton Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine (June 20) “High For Streamliners” p. 11: Hardly noticeable, under his right foot, is a small pedal—resembling the clutch pedal on your automobile. “That’s called ‘dead man’s pedal’,” Charlie explains. “The weight of my foot holds it down. If for any reason my foot should be removed—in case of heart failure or if I should be thrown from the seat—the motors would be switched off and the brakes locked.” 1941 Herbert Chase New York Times (Aug. 3) “Suggestion for Relocation Of Accelerator Shows Many Plans Tried” p. XX5: Cars have been built with brake pedals.…We have built-in hand-braking controls and so-called “dead-man” brake controls. 1949 Marian McKay Chicago Defender (June 11) “Underground Pilots” p. 13: There is also a “dead man’s brake” to stop the train if anything happens to the motorman. 1978 Zuhair Kashmeri Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (June 29) “Safety switch not on when train killed 3, Milton inquest told” p. P1: A safety switch was disconnected in a runaway locomotive which crushed three people to death in Milton on March 14, an inquest was told yesterday. The switch, called a dead man’s switch, first gives a warning whistle and then stops a moving train engine if the operator does not have his foot on the switch pedal.
1981 Edward A. Gargan New York Times (July 6) “Brakes Were Off On Subway Train Involved In Crash”: In the motorman’s cab there are two levers, a braking lever operated by the right hand and the controller lever, equivalent to an accelerator, which is operated by the left hand. The controller is also called the “dead man’s handle’” because it must constantly be pressed downward against a spring to accelerate the train. When the motorman’s hand is lifted from the lever, the lever springs upward and the train automatically brakes.
1996 Peter Luck Sun-Herald (Australia) (May 19) “Moving Right Along, Folks” p. 118: Having produced or presented most of Australia’s current affairs programs, with the occasional live disaster, I used to joke that we ought to have a “dead man’s lever” such as those on trains which would bring the program screeching to a halt if things got out of control. 2007 Britney Glaser KPLC-TV (Lake Charles, Lousiana) (July 4) “Behind-the-Scenes with Pyrotechnics”: This pyrotechnic crew won’t be sitting around, though, until the “dead man’s switch,” as it is called, is clicked to start the show. Until then, they’re moving boxes, cutting tape and sorting through thousands of fireworks.
[1947 Stuart W. Cook Psychological research on radar observer training p. 31: The same quality has been designated “systematic diligence” elsewhere. Some radar observers exhibit “finger trouble” in tuning…] 1952 Vivian Voss The Story of No. 1 Squadron S.A.A.F., Sometime Known as the Billy Boys p. 106: Because of the scarcity of aircraft, any flying accident thought to be even remotely due to finger-trouble on the part of the pilot, was severely dealt with. 1983 Journal of the Operational Research Society (Dec.) “Conference Abstracts” vol. 34, no. 12, p. A31: The system is user friendly, provides comprehensive computer data-checking features and is robust to operator finger trouble. 1984 William M. Carley @ Madrid Wall Street Journal (June 6) “Off Course: Spanish Airlines Make More Than Their Share Of Navigational Errors”: Iberia and Spantax pilots, more than most, have been having what safety experts call “finger trouble.” They have been hitting the wrong numbers on the inertial navigation system keyboard. 1985 [Raymond D. Dunn] Usenet: net.micro.pc (July 26) “Re: software protection - dongles & other gizmos”: Sure we have all had disk problems, but what percentage of these were not associated with writing/deleting/finger-trouble/bad-handling—extremely small! 1986 [John O'Neill] (Sept. 24) “Slow Motion Mode in MacsBug - Is TN#7 Correct?” @ Usenet: mod.mac (Sept. 26, 1996) “INFO-MAC Digest V4 #121”: “To turn slow motion mode off, simply enter MacsBug and type SS.” This does not appear to work for me—slow motion mode stays on. Is it finger trouble?
2004 Domestic & General Group (Apr.) “Technical helpline support for Sanyo customers”: Customers contacting the Helpline do so for a variety of reasons. Perhaps they don’t understand the remote control, the instruction book or are having problems caused by “finger trouble.” We will—using Sanyo products and manuals—talk them through the process and try to resolve the problem. 2005 Peter Van Epp @ Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada uUnisog—UNIversity Security Operations Group mailing list (Sept. 20) “Intelligent Patch Panels”: Finger trouble on the control panel is my big worry. Unlike the passive taps where I can (and do) get the wrong connection on the sniffer, such a mistake on an active patch panel could disrupt a live connection. 2006 hako @ Townsville, North Queensland Just Commodores (Oct. 29) “ Air Bag Light”: The only way to clear the light is by someone with a scanner—some auto elects can do it or a dealer. You probably turned the ignition on whilst disconnecting something under the dash. All it means is that your airbag is now disconnected/isolated for whatever reason but generally its due to finger trouble. 2007 Sunday Times (Perth, Australia) (Jan. 21) “Pointing the finger” p. R19: It was an assembly error in the car’s in-line six that led to a blow-up and fire as one of the conrods left the scene of the crime through the side of the engine block. Race teams put such failures down to “finger trouble,” since they are often due to mechanics doing something wrong with their hands. 2007 Abdul Milazi Business Day (Johannesburg, South Africa) (July 2) “Bleeping Device Easily Worth Its Weight in Gold”: We normally don’t have service calls as the hardware is very reliable. In fact, we have never made a hardware repair. Problems come from what is known as finger trouble, where unskilled people fiddle with the computer and somehow lose the settings.
1991 Joanna McClelland Glass Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (June 8) “Too many axes to grind” p. C1: I saw a bevy with a sign that said, “Women of Color,” another bevy with a sign that said, “Woman of Pallor.” 1991 [Joseph T. Chew] Usenet: rec.humor (Nov. 22) “Re: racial”: “Gawd you’re ignorant! I’m White.”…“Shouldn’t that be pigmentally disabled” “No, no, no. Get with the program! He’s a person of pallor!” 1996 Drew Hayden Taylor Windspeaker (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) (Feb.) “What’s in a word? Plenty” vol. 13, no. 10, p. 9: White People: Politically incorrect term for those of European descent. More currently acceptable terms are People of Pallor, Color Challenged, or the Pigment Denied. 2001 Rob Morse San Francisco Chronicle (Mar. 14) “Kiss Me—I’m “White’”: “White” only describes what a few people look like, and it needs a dignified euphemism, like “People of pallor.” 2007 James Taranto Opinion Journal (July 2) “Best of the Web Today”: Joshua and Andy were rejected because their racial group was overrepresented in the schools they wanted to attend, not because the school was closed to everyone who shared their skin color. Although they were persons of pallor (“white” in Seattle’s parlance, “other” in Louisville’s), the policies could just as easily have refused admission to black (or, in Seattle, “nonwhite”) students.
1973 San Mateo Times (California) (Jan. 22) “913 Trucks, Tractors” p. 30: ’73 Chevy “Big Dualy”…Here is the camper truck equipped to do the job.…dual wheels. 1985 Nelson Antosh Houston Chronicle (Texas) (Feb. 28) “Junior grand championship goes to Pottsboro man, 18” p. 23: Not just any pickup. “I’m going to get me a dually (with dual rear wheels).” 1986 Pete Bellas Usenet: net.auto (Feb. 5) “Re: List of Drivers to Avoid (WARNING - long)”: Pickup Trucks—Here there are two kinds, which are very different. Full size (also dually and 4X4). 1992 Paul Duchene Oregonian (Portland) (Aug. 15) “Dodge’s Diesel Pickup A Worker” p. C13: It’s rated at 10,000-pounds towing capacity—a small house or a big trailer—and that goes up to 11,900 if you buy the dually. 1996 Steve Sturgess Construction Equipment (Aug. 1) “Exclusive: We drive the tough-duty pickup” vol. 94, no. 2, p. 42: The ability to see over other traffic is a big plus, and the width of the cab assures the driver doesn’t snag the rear tires or even the bodywork in a close maneuver—commonly a problem with big dually pickups. 2002 Paul Mclaughlin Ford 4x4s 1935-1990 Photo History (Dec. 9) p. 86: St. Louis Regional Airport in Bethalto, Illinois is the home for this 1978 Ford F Series “dualie” pickup. 2003 Rick Mitchell New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge, United Kingdom) (Feb.) “Simple Pleasures: the Ten-Minute Play, Overnight Theatre, and the Decline of the Art of Storytelling” vol. XIX, no. 73, p. 73: Purchase a “dualie,” a large, four-door, luxury pick-up truck which features a set of dual wheels on the rear axle. 2003 Lisa Aichlmayr, Dave Zielasko @ Las Vegas Tire Business (Nov. 24) “Big tires and wheels keep gettin’ bigger” vol. 21, no. 18, p. 16: Michelin also debuted its BFGoodrich Commercial T/Aall season tire, size LT235/65R18, as a plus-two fitment size to replace the LT225/75R16 LRD or LRE and the LT215/85R16 LRD or LRE currently offered for dually pick-up trucks.
1985 Omaha World-Herald (July 10) “Dairy, Soil Plans OK’d; Grain Policies Debated” p. 12: Added to the “sodbuster” penalties were new “swampbuster” provisions applying the same sanctions to farmers who drain wetlands to plant crops. 1986 Lewrene K. Glaser United States Department of Agriculture (Apr. ) “Provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985”: Title XII—Prohibits USDA program benefits to farmers who convert highly erodible land (“sodbusters”) or wetlands (“swampbusters”) to cropland. Authorizes a conservation reserve of 40 to 45 million acres by 1990.
2007 E-Wire (June 27) “The Wildlife Society Releases 2007 Farm Bill Policy Statement” (in Bethesda, Maryland): Swampsbuster and Sodbuster compliance should be linked to all federal farm program benefits. Conservation compliance provisions for highly erodible land (HEL) are commonly referred to as sodbuster and wetland conservation (swampbuster) compliance provisions, the objectives of which are to: reduce soil erosion on croplands, protect long-term capability to produce food and fiber, reduce sedimentation and improve water quality, and preserve and protect the Nation’s wetlands.
1992 [Eshin-Fun] Usenet: alt.magick (July 20) “Re: Possible to Obtain magic powers>?”: What is now commonly called by Crowlites, and “witchy-poos” as wizardry, magic and spells is originally the arts of an ancient shaman or priest. 1993 Shelley Emling Atlanta Constitution (Aug. 12) “Witch denied use of home as church” p. C/4: “People don’t understand what I do, and I have been trying to debunk the typical witchy-poo stuff from the beginning,” said Lady Sintana, a former burlesque dancer and the granddaughter of a Baptist minister. “I don’t call what I have at my house a church; it’s more like a coven.”
2004 [Gnome d Plume] Usenet: alt.magick.tyagi (June 2) “Re: Silly Tom ( was Silly Someone else)”: Actually it was, but you and I don’t have to feel insulted because we both know that we are so far advanced in spiritual development that we cannot possibly be compared to or included with the witchy-poos, trailer park Druids, beady-eyed “c.m.s,” and occult cyber-geeks that Dr. Schuler is referring to. 2007 Jeff Westbrook Whiskey Rebellion (Mar. 7) “A very special place”: This is not scary, witchy-poo magic. This is whimsical, fun, life-is-a-delicious-treat magic. 2007 [passerby] Kingdom of Geekitude (Canada) (Apr. 11) “comics bookin #1”: Andrew is a watcher, Giles is around and Willow is all RenFaire witchy poo.
1979 Eliot Wigginton, et al. Foxfire 5 (June 1) p. 251: I always carry a rock hammer and a gunny sack, and when I see a likely piece of jasper or agate, I chip a corner to see how it holds up. Like as not, the whole stone may shatter making it into leaverite (leave-’er-right there where you found it). 1979 Anne H. Oman Washington Post (Weekend-10) (Nov. 16) “A Madness for Moonstones”: “It’s ‘leaverite,’” says Smith of one specimen: “Leave ’er right there.” But after a few more pans of sand the kids hit paydirt. 1985 Joe Doggett Houston Chronicle (Feb. 13) “You can get the fever fishing for gold” p. 7: Leaverite, as in “leave-her-right.” Leave her right there. It’s just another damn rock, and if you tourists keep toting them home, the Yukon will be flat as Dallas. Now, if you’re finished prospecting, I’ll show you something. 1997 George Foster Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington) (July 14) “The Spirit Of The Klondike Lives On The Sourdoughs Of Today Are Willing To Settle For A Speck, A Fleck Or A Flake” p. B1: Bartolotta demonstrated his panning technique by shaking a plastic container resembling a Chinese wok. He explained that by moving the pan, the lighter material is suspended in the soupy water of the stream bottom “so that heavier material such as gold sinks to the bottom.” “See that’s leverite,” he said, pointing to a tiny, nondescript stone in the pan. “Leave-’er-right there because she ain’t worth nothing,” he said with a laugh. 2007 Don Hopey @ Rock River, Wyoming Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) (June 24) “Dinosaurs are gone, but their bones are all about”: “What you’ve got there,” he said with a grin, pointing to a cup-sized stone picked up by one of the searchers, “is probably leverite, as in ‘leave her right there, it ain’t no good.’”
2000 [LCK] Usenet: alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Oct. 20) “Re: OT: The shortest AT&T Digital Cable experience ever!”: If you have any reason to go cable instead of satellite (nothwithstanding bozak’s recs), then it might be worth one more phone call to AT&T FraudBand. 2001 Azeem Azhar Guardian (United Kingdom) (June 14) “Second sight—broadband access” p. 10: Broadband offers three advantages over vanilla modem connections.…But for the overwhelming majority, it doesn’t allow them to do much they could not do before. Perhaps fraudband would be a better term. 2001 [Angry spatula (Nicklas Johnson)] Morons.org (Nov. 26) “Morons in the News: Sprint Fraudband Defect”: I will illustrate for you how Sprint has perverted the truth and misrepresented facts, causing me to surrender my valuable time and money. The best way to do this is with Sprint Fraudband Defect’s own words. 2005 Jaggy Overthrow (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, xxxIndia) (Nov. 22) “Who said the Broadband has arrived in India?”: My Sify Broadband (Fraudband?) connection has went off again. Did the whole process again, registered a complaint with its “so-called-customer-care.” 2007 Karon Snowdon, Paul Budde ABC Radio Australia (June 22) “Years behind region on broadband”: There is a huge pent up demand in Australia for good quality broadband services. It has to be affordable, then you will start seeing that a majority of Australians that are now on what’s called “Fraudband” yeah, will actually move to real good quality broadband within the next two years.
1995 Andy Lee Country Journal (May 1) “Gardening with a chicken tractor: a few hens in a portable coop can mow, till, weed, fertilize and more.” vol. 22, no. 3, p. 43: (title) 1995 Laura White @ Albuquerque, New Mexico Usenet: misc.rural (May 25) “Re: Misc rural questions”: A Chicken tractor is a chicken coop built on wheels and without a floor. This allow you to move the chickens around your orchard or yard on a regular basis. They eat the bugs, scratch and fertilize the soil and after a few days you move them to the next spot. No cleaning the bottom of the cage etc. 2003 [d_donahoo] @ Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia Permaculture discussion forum (July 28) “School kids and permaculture”: The “chook tractor” is a time old permaculture concept as far as i can tell. it can be as complex or simple as you like. but the basic principle is enclose the chooks where you want to plant a garden, feed them and leave them there for 1-3 months and they do all the scratching and turning over of the soil for you—fertilise it with their poo and eat all the weeds (including couch grass)—for basically nothing (and you get eggs!). 2006 Paul Waddington Guardian (United Kingdom) (Feb. 25) “How to be a 21st-century smallholder”: Getting set up with chickens can be very cheap: the birds themselves cost from 25p to £20 each and the housing can be home-made, although a wooden chicken “ark” will cost around £200. *2007 Katy Skinner The City Chicken (Yacolt, Washington) (May 22) “Chicken Tractor Gallery”: A chicken tractor is basically a bottomless cage or pen of some kind. This is so the chickens can scratch (a chicken’s raison de etre) and eat off of the ground such things as grass, weeds, bugs, etc. In the U.K., chicken tractors are called chicken arks. You can drag your chicken tractor around the yard if you want. They often feature wheels. Without a cage bottom, the chicken manure goes directly onto the ground and becomes fertilizer.
1972 Shav Glick Los Angeles Times (July 7) “45,000 To Watch Motocross In Coliseum Tonight” p. III-3: They will race about 100 yards before funneling into a tight turn, followed by five jumps, a water hazard, mud pit, several sand traps and dozens of “whoop-de-do” cross-grain ruts. 1974 Robert J. Allan Los Angeles Times (Jan. 13) “City’s Bike Motocross Course a Hit” p. XI-19: It has a whoop-dee-doo…much to the delight of the city’s young bicycle riders. 1977 John Thomas Wark New York Times (May 15) “A Boom Grows in the Dust” p. 21-26: Another rider racing down the straight called the “L.I.E.” (after the Long Island Expressway) fails to negotiate the washboard bumps, or “whoop-do-dos,” as he should have and very nearly falls. 1983 Philip Senon @ North Bergen, New Jersey New York Times (July 4) “Young Daredevils Flocking To Bicycle Tracks” p. 1: The track, part of the North Hudson County Park, snakes downhill along 800 feet of brown dirt. It has, to use BMX jargon, three ‘‘berms’’ (banked curves) and five ‘‘whoops’’ (bumps). One of the whoops is a ‘‘table top,’’ a bumb that is a bit flat on top. 1983 Elizabeth Griffiths Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (Sept. 22) “Bicycle racing sweeps Canada” p. CL8: Like all BMX tracks, it’s designed with a series of wave-like bumps (whoops), banked corners (burms), bumps and jumps to challenge the skills of a biker. Bill Gilles, acting president of the Newmarket BMX Club, calls one “whoop,” Spumoni Junction. “The name just popped out of my mouth one day,” he says. “I don’t think I can even spell it.” 1996 David Booth Toronto Star (Canada) (June 1) “A dirt biker’s dream 200 km of scrub, rocks and whoop-de-doos can hardly be called a ‘tour’ but Baja was a blast” p. SA2: On the second day, we encountered 29 km of whoop-de-doos. For those unfamiliar with dirt bike vernacular, picture the harshest mogul run you’ve ever seen, lay it out horizontally, throw in some sand and you have whoops. It was amazingly invigorating. Whoops are best approached standing up, with you legs pumping like shock absorbers. Normally after a few hundred metres of this pounding, your legs turn to Jell-O. 2007 [ Cecilie Hoffman] Cecilie’s Motorcycle Journal (Mountain View, California) (May 28): Two weeks ago I listened while Karolyn and Julia talked about the steep downhill and the series of “whoops” at the beginning of the trail. “Whoops” are like moguls in downhill skiing, they are mounds that you ride over—don’t forget you are standing up, not sitting down, absorbing the undulation with your knees. 2007 Chris Leman SunValleyOnline.com (June 19) “Volunteers Work Howard’s Trail”: Much of the trail has developed a “cupped” condition, with a large berm of soil having built up on the outside edge of the trail. In places, the cupping is quite deep, and the undulations in the trail (known as “whoops” in motorcycle parlance) are growing.
Texas.
English.
Politics.
Slang. Common in constructions like “take/get on/board/catch the late train.”
1983 [Thomas B. Edsall] Washington Post (Apr. 25) “Economic Ills Strain Alliance Of Oilmen, GOP” p. A1: Within a month after Clements lost, Mark White, the victor, held a series of “get on board the late train” fund-raisers that produced $3 million from many of the original Clements backers. 1986 Wayne Slater, George Kuempel Dallas Morning News (Texas) (Mar. 23) “Big Donations Fuel White’s Campaign Series: The Money Behind The Candidates” p. 1A: In order to communicate, it helps to be on the right side, said Bob Cozean, a Houston-based real estate developer who, with partner Pat Gilbert, has contributed $15,000 to White’s re-election campaign. “As opposed to taking a late train, which many of us did last time,” he said, “this time, we were there at the beginning.” 1998 Houston Chronicle (Texas) (Jan. 9) “Most action in the primary is on Republican side of the ballot”: All aboard! Houston Mayor Lee Brown’s late train chugs out on Feb. 3 at the Westin Galleria Hotel. It’s a fund-raiser for Brown’s campaign. Anyone who didn’t contribute the maximum amount to Brown’s coffers can curry political favor—or just show support and admiration—by tossing in some bucks now. That includes people who backed Rob Mosbacher and now don’t want to lose their clout totally because of their stake in City Hall policies, politics or contracts. In the campaign business, it’s called a “late train” fund-raiser. 2002 Michael King, Jordan Smith Austin Chronicle (Texas) (Dec. 13) “Harbingers of the Season”: On the Lege scene, most of the serious December action is confined to “late-train” fundraisers recalling the opening scenes of The Godfather—much public celebration while the lobbyists, checks in hand, line up in the back rooms. [2006 Richard S. Dunhan, Eamon Javers BusinessWeek (Feb. 9) “Shakedown on K Street”: That game can be expensive. One Washington lobbyist who asked not to be identified says he gave money to the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for a House seat. After the election, the Republican winner called to demand a check—bigger than the original gift. Why? “The late train is a hell of a lot more expensive than the early train,” the lobbyist says he was told.] 2007 Allan Parker Express-News (San Antonio, Texas) (June 16) “Fix term limits? Not if system is not broken”: Haass recounted how the special interest donations start flowing to incumbents as soon as they are elected. All the people who supported the council member’s opponent get on the “late train,” as it is called. Suddenly, the incumbent is best friends with all the people who need government power to accomplish goals they cannot achieve through cooperation with citizens.
2004 Christopher Payne, Alan Meier Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information (July 21) “Many Small Consumers, One Growing Problem: Achieving Energy Savingsfor Electronic Equipment Operating in Low Power Modes”: An increasing amount of electricity is used by equipment that is neither fully “on” nor fully “off.” We call these equipment states low power modes, or “lopomos.” “Standby” and “sleep” are the most familiar lopomos, but some new products already have many modes. Lopomos are becoming common in household appliances, safety equipment, and miscellaneous products.
2007 Larry Magid New York Times (June 14) “Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet”: Products that idle in what the industry calls low-power mode, or lopomo, consumed about 10 percent of total electricity in California homes, according to a 2002 study prepared for the California Energy Commission by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. *2007 Alamedia Power & Telecom (California) (June 15) “Lopomos Lesson”: “Lopomos” is an acronym for “low-power modes.”… Lopomo energy is used to maintain digital clocks on microwave ovens and VCRs, save television channels in memory, and keep cell phones and rechargeable tools powered up for when you need them.…Lopomos account for an estimated 10 percent of the electricity used in California homes, at an average of 50 watts per household.
2001 Marilyn Kammer Orange County Register (California) (Mar. 29) “Local couple will hike Appalachian Trail” p. 1: The couple also has another method of replenishing—what they call a bounce box. “You bounce it from town to town and go through its contents. If you need shampoo or nail clippers, you use it, then send it to the next town you’re going to hike out to,” explained Brant. 2001 Debbi Snook Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (July 15) “Taking a look inside a long-distance hiker’s backpack”: Her husband, Bob, brings her items from home when he hikes with her once a month, most recently her sturdier pair of broken-in hiking boots. He also mails her the freeze-dried food packages she assembled months ago. And she has what she calls a “bounce box” that she ships ahead to herself with items she only needs occasionally, such as waterproofing supplies or detailed trail maps for different states. 2004 Elizabeth Fitzsimons San Diego Union-Tribune (California) (Apr. 23) “Long, winding road ahead for local hikers”: They communicate in hikerspeak. A “bounce box” is a stash of supplies hikers mail to themselves from one supply stop to the next. 2006 [Aaron Doss] Google Groups: dosspct2006 (Aug. 10) “7/3, Independence/Bishop”: We couldn’t stay too long though; we needed to do shopping for the next section and fill a resupply box for Tuolome and ship this out and do all our stuff with our bounce box. it was kind of a rush because shopping needed to be done in bishop but our bounce box was in independance and there was only one bus going at 1:30. 2007 [Rodent] RealTravel (June 13) “Having fun out there”: Bounce box: the box with food and extra band-aids etc. that you forward to yourself from post office to post office.
1990 Free China Journal (China) (Dec. 6) “Leisure Farming Idea Sprouts” vol. 7, no. 94, p. 3: What is being called “leisure farming,” or agriculture combined with tourism, may play a vital role in the future agricultural development of the Republic of China on Taiwan. 2004 Inquirer (Philippines) (Sept. 19) “The subject was roses, among other floral provocations”: Now the fashion is having a leisure farm for the weekend. They’re planning to grow tomatoes and other salad vegetables for their own tables. Parang it’s becoming fashionable again to work with your hands. 2005 Iris Cecilia C. Gonzales BusinessWorld (Philippines) (June 2) “Leisure Farm opens El Sanctuario” p. S2/6: Meanwhile, the agri-tainment park, an agricultural theme park, opens its gates to visitors at the leisure farms agro-tourism development in Lemery, Batangas. Introducing a fun way to learn about agriculture, the park offers a variety of interactive adventures, farming activities, and pathways to explore. 2007 Foong Woei Wan e.sincehew-i.com (June 12) “Farmstay Fantasy”: However, I was lucky enough to go to two farms in southern Taiwan last month—I also visited the charming Dakeng Recreational Farm in Tainan. Leisure farms, as they are called, give city folk like me a chance to try The Simple Life in spectacular surroundings.
1966 Robert Trumbull @ Misawa, Japan New York Times (June 12) “Jets From U.S. Base in Japan Patrol Near Soviet” p. 110: A structure similar to a fence of tall steel posts stands out in the distance. “We call that the elephant cage,” an officer says. It is the property of the 6921st Security Wing, a high-power electronic eavesdropping outfit that prefers to be identified, if at all, as having something to do with “communications.” 1972 Michael Morrow @ Ramasun, Northeastern Thailand Washington Post, Times Herald (Sept. 14) “GIs at a Secret Base—Plenty of Time to Worry” p. E1: On base is a maze of wire and steel rods laid out over an area larger than a football field. Local people call it “the elephant cage.” It houses one of the most important intelligence-gathering operations the U.S. military is conducting in the Indochina war. 1987 Joseph D. Moell, Thomas N. Curlee Transmitter Hunting (June 1) p. 5: The AN/FLR-9 Countermeasures Receiving System, an excellent example of a Wullenweber DF array. This array, commonly called an “Elephant Cage,” is 900 feet in diameter. 1993 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nov. 15) “Pacific Military Security Grows More Cooperative” p. A06: The 6,000 U.S. servicemen and women stationed at Misawa Air Base spend a lot of time thinking about North Korea. Eavesdroppers in a top-secret listening post at the base likely target the Stalinist nation with their gigantic antenna, a circular fencelike structure nicknamed the elephant cage. 2006 James Turnbull, Alex Turnbull Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite (Nov. 1) p. 33: You probably wouldn’t expect to find an elephant cage on an air base, but Elmendorf Air Base in Alaska has something like one—although there are no elephants in this cage. This is, in fact, a “AN/FLR-9 Circularly Disposed Antenna Array” (CDAA). 2007 Lisa Vaas eWeek (June 4) “NSA Rolls with Tech Changes to Keep Spying”: The NSA has another type of antenna array, nicknamed an elephant cage, which houses 360 elements. When the agency marries multiple elephant cages together, it can pinpoint exactly where a signal is coming from.
1991 [Baron M.] Usenet: alt.tv.tiny-toon (Mar. 9) “Tiny Toons references”: Also any other exciting stuff i might of missed in the last week or two’d be appreciated as well (but I can’t read gifs! grumble grumble grumble). Le sigh. (sorry Fifi & Hepzibah!) 2005 Ophelia Mourne (July 7): You make me sick too. *lesigh* 2005 DD Turner (Cox News Service) (Nov. 4) “Elevators have ups and downs”: Some of my stuff is in the hall, some is still in the hotel room. I have to go get a new key from the front desk. Precursor of things to come: the elevator took forever to get there. Then, they wanted ID, which of course was in my purse, locked in the room! Le sigh! 2006 Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Dec. 7) “Put a Stocking in It”: For the love of all that’s holy, please stop talking and end this movie. Whoa, there’s Jude without his kit! A little post-nooky bed-lounging. Le sigh. 2007 Tricia Romano Village Voice (New York City) (Feb. 12) “Rave On!”: The Brits, after all, are the masters at merging rave and rock. While we’re not quite in new-rave territory (le sigh), we do have a hint of it thanks to Le Nimh’s time in the Phoenix rave scene trenches.
1970 Don Cook @ Paris Los Angeles Times (May 13) “Common Mart Sets Membership Talks” p. D13: The Luxembourg meeting will be primarily a “family photo” affair with the four applicants for membership. 1984 Michael Dobbs @ Utah Beach, France Washington Post (June 7) “French Leader Urges Ex-Allies To Heal Split”: The western leaders have used the D-Day ceremonies to underscore the unity of the western alliance in the face of Soviet attempts to drive a political wedge between the United States and Western Europe—and this was undoubtedly the message they wanted to send to the world as they posed for a “family photo” on Utah Beach after the ceremony. 1985 Kevin Costelloe (Associated Press) (May 3) “Some Summit Talk Will Never Make History”: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher spoke of the high cost of maintaining British manor houses. President Reagan recalled his cavalry service. Italian Premier Bettino Craxi almost missed the “family photo” of summit leaders. 1998 Jude Webber @ Rome (Reuters) (May 3) “Italian problems await Prodi on triumphant return”: But judging by the pensive look on his face as he posed for a summit “family photo” beside British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Prodi knows another battle is just beginning. 1999 Patrick Wintour, Ian Traynor, Ed Vulliamy Observer (United Kingdom) (June 6) “Why Milosevic blinked first”: The Foreign Office immediately rang the mobiles of Kim Darroch, the Foreign Office head of news, and Alistair Campbell, Blair’s press secretary. The politicians were just heading off for an EU family photo session. Blair took the news calmly but, a naturally suspicious character, he refused to celebrate. 2000 Xinhua News Agency (Mar. 23) “Finally a ‘Family Photo’ of EU Leaders” (in Lisbon, Portugal): A family photo of EU heads of state and government is usual for any of the union’s special summits. But one had been deemed so difficult for the Lisbon version of the special council in that Austria’s 14 EU partners have been boycotting the country politically. 2001 Mikhail Kalmykov (ITAR Tass: Comtex) (July 19) “Putin to leave for G-8 summit in Genoa”: In the evening, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will give dinner in honor of the summiteers. The final meeting of the summit will open on Sunday. After an hour-long discussion and approval of the final documents, the summiteers will gather for a family photo. This will end the official part of the summit. 2007 Guardian (United Kingdom) (June 7) “Notebook: Bush Is Nostalgic Over Blair” (in Heiligendamm, Germany): What, for instance, had Russian President Vladimir Putin so engaged on his cell phone as the leaders strode onto the resort’s lush lawn overlooking the sea for what’s known as the “family photo?” The same for France’s new president, Nicolas Sarkozy. (Bush, by the way, does not carry a cell phone; an aide does that for him.)
1994 David Barstow St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (July 29) “Bringing suit in Florida? Break a leg” p. 1A: In Florida, back and neck strains are the most common personal-injury claim. They’re so common that attorneys have a nickname for them: “whippy’s.” That’s shorthand for whiplash suffered in, say, a rear-end collision. 1995 Malcolm Brown Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (July 11) “‘Whippy’: Not A Bribe, Just Money” p. 2: A chief of detectives at Kings Cross, Detective Inspector Brian Meredith, had said he was against police taking regular bribes but as far as he was concerned they could pocket “whippy”—money they found on searches—the Police Royal Commission heard yesterday.…“He said to me he was against anyone accepting a “retainer,” as he put it, but if you went somewhere and found a “whippy,” then as far as he was concerned, it was a free-for-all,” Sergeant Scullion said. 1996 Christopher Cooper New Orleans Times-Picayune (Lousiana) (Nov. 17) “Foster’s Goal Is No-Fault Insurance Detractors Say It Won’t Cut Costs” p. A1: The system is broken, Donelon said, adding that he sees the evidence daily in the mounting number of “whippys”—defense attorney slang for whiplash claims, so common that they are paid out at a standard rate, even though the medical experts cannot vouch that anything is really wrong. 1997 Sydney Morning Herald (May 1) “A Dictionary Of Corruption” p. 2: Whippy: money divvied up by police when found during a search. 2002 Andrew Malleson Whiplash and Other Useful Illnesses (April) p. 254: The whippies, as the insurance industry calls whiplash claimants, account for this huge increase in BI claims. For the purpose of insurance statistics, whiplash is recorded as “sprains and strains,” ans since these sprains and strains nearly all involve the neck and the back, it is reasonable to equate them with whiplash.
2002 Katy Rent Grand Rapids Business Journal (Michigan) (Jan. 21) “Newsmaker Of The Year: A UNIQUE THEATER” vol. 20, no. 3, p. B4: Because of the definition of the new urbanism concept, the architecture of the theater had to be redesigned into creating one entrance in the front with teaser parking, and then creating a separate entrance in the back, where the majority of the parking is located. 2002 Spencer Heinz Oregonian (Portland) (Mar. 18) “A Nickel For Their Thoughts On Bus Mall Parking Meters” p. B01: Part of the proposal calls for trying to make transit mall stores more visible and reachable by car. The team suggests narrowing sidewalks and moving artwork to make room for a lane of “teaser parking,” a term that suggests just enough curbside spaces to give car-bound shoppers hope that they will be the fortunate ones. 2004 Van Meter Williams Pollack Urbsworks, Inc. Planning & Community Environment (Palo Alto, California) (Mar. 3) “Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan: Parking Design Issues” p. 2: Another technique is to include a small amount of “teaser” parking visible from the street, which communicates to drivers the availability and location of parking. Teaser parking act as a visual cue, leading drivers to the access points for larger parking lots or garages.…Require parking to be placed behind or below buildings, with the option of a small amount of “teaser” parking visible from the street in more automobile-oriented areas. 2007 Tory Gattis Houston Strategies (Texas) (Apr. 15) “Urban corridors initiative”: I’ve heard the term “teaser parking” used—insufficient parking in front of a store that people think they will be able to get when they set out on a trip, but they’re willing to drive to the more inconvenient parking in back or down the block if necessary when they get there. 2007 Mark Albright St. Petersburg Times (Florida) (June 6) “The morphing of the mall”: In one corner of the project, typically, there’s a Main Street for smaller mall stores, boutiques and Starbucks. Some have offices or condos upstairs. The street is lined with what’s called “teaser parking” so motorists drive a lap before realizing the empty spaces are in a vast lot out back.
1986 Robert L. Chapman New Dictionary of American Slang p. 321: Pickle park…A roadside rest area. 1988 Lindalee Tracey Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (Oct. 21) “Goin’ Down The Road”: Back in his cab, Rattu pulls out his logbook. He now has to record his hours of work, coffee breaks and stops at pickle parks (rest areas). 1992 [Arlen Speights] Usenet: rec.radio.cb (Apr. 27) “Re: Politically incorrect CB topics…”: Once while passing a “Pickle Park” in mid-Virginia, I heard a trucker trying to sell a 150w linear. 1996 Ben Jacoby Usenet: talk.politics.guns, (Mar. 19) “Re: !NRA orders republicans to weaken Anti-terrorist legislation”: Since I regularly ride a bike path than winds through a local “pickle park” I can say that I have actually seen *with my own eyes* homosexuals engaged in “dicksipping.” In fact on one occasion I saw what I thought was a loose pig, but as I rode closer it turned out to be a naked man running through the underbrush! 2005 Timothy Bolger Long Island Press (New York) (Oct. 13) “Crime Scenes: Pickle Park Perps”: Unless you’re gay, you’re probably unaware of “pickle park,” a rest stop off the Long Island Expressway in Melville. It’s not officially known as pickle park, but that’s what the gay cognoscenti call the popular pick-up spot. 2006 [Mittens] Hitchcock scissors (Oakland, California) (Oct. 30) “bicycling”: The other thing about Aquatic Park is that I once heard someone refer to it as “Pickle Park” because apparently, this is a common place for men to hookup. 2007 [ouijabear] Pedo mellon a minno (Johnson City, Tennessee) (Jan. 14) “Ginkgo Biloba”: Buffalo Mountain is a park for hiking and walking—and is also known as the local “pickle park” for closeted homos looking for blow jobs and the sort. *2007 [Bigdadgib] Big Dad Gib on Opera (June 9) “Truckenees—Lesson No. 2”: “Pickle park”—a rest area or parking area along the interstate or highway.
1985 Omaha World-Herald (Mar. 1) “Guidelines Developed Some Educators Oppose ‘Redshirting’ 5-Year-Olds”: Parents who “redshirt” their 5-year-olds instead of enrolling them in kindergarten are a concern to some Nebraska educators who are trying to reverse the trend of holding children back until age 6 to start school. 1985 Wilbur B. Brookover Journal of Negro Education (Summer) “Can We Make Schools Effective for Minority Students?” vol. 54, no. 3, p. 261: Under the guise of individual differences, meeting individual needs, continuous progress, humanistic education, and now kindergarten redshirting, we have sought to justify shortchanging the children of poor and minorities in American schools. 2007 Elizabeth Weil New York Times (June 3) “When Should a Kid Start Kindergarten?”: After the morning announcements and the Pledge of Allegiance, Andersen’s kindergartners sat down on a blue rug. Two, one boy and one girl, had been redshirted—the term, borrowed from sports, describes students held out for a year by their parents so that they will be older, or larger, or more mature, and thus better prepared to handle the increased pressures of kindergarten today.
1956 Los Angeles Times (Jan. 20) “Transit Plan Agreement Smoked Out” p. 4: I believe we are going to have co-ordination between automobiles and rapid transit.…It will be park and ride or kiss and ride—where the wife takes the husband to the rapid transit line and kisses him good-by. 1958 Thomas Buck Chicago Daily Tribune (May 25) “The Commuter of The Future” p. G26: At the terminal building, the wife and husband pull into a special place to park long enough to discuss last minute family matters…and for that parting kiss! This husbad is the “Kiss-and_Ride” passenger in the local transportation plan for the Chicago area of the future. 1973 James Kilpatrick Modesto Bee And News-Herald (California) (Mar. 11) “Public Transit Stars in Success Story” p. C3: It has created “park and ride” terminals, where passengers may leave their cars in the morning. It has promoted “kiss and ride” points, where wives are urged to deposit their husbands for the daily trip into town by bus. 1999 Alice Reid Washington Post (Apr. 2) “At Metro Parking Lots, Car Wars”: Thirty years ago, the region was pretty much contained inside the Capital Beltway, and planners thought commuters would be mostly guys, who would ride the bus to Metro stations or be delivered by spouses to “Kiss and Ride” lots. 2002 Scoop (New Zealand) (Dec. 18) “IA Offers Further $6.4 million for Auckland Rail”: Access facilities will be significantly improved by Park and Ride facilities, Kiss and Ride facilities, bicycle storage and disabled access. New amenities will include bus and train information, public address systems, locality maps, landscaping and fencing. 2003 Great Neck Record (Mineola, New York) (Nov. 7 ) “Plaza Roundabout”: We suggest that people who need to drop off or pick up someone using the railroad station do so inside the train station area on North Station Plaza, or queue in the commuter parking lots around the station designed to accommodate commuter activity. The roundabout or its approaching intersections are not the appropriate locations to attempt “kiss and ride.” 2007 Tom Gruber Cohasset Mariner (Massachusetts) (May 31) “Downtown station not likely”: Since the village area has precious few parking resources, the idea was floated for the MBTA to build a station in the downtown area without parking, or a what is sometimes called a “kiss and ride” station.
Philippines.
Automobiles & Transportation. [Named after Skylab, the international space station that sported jutting solar panels. Filipinos are said to have been fixated on Skylab when it fell to Earth in July 1979.] This video at YouTube shows a Filipino skylab in action. In Thailand, a SkyLab is a brand of large three-wheeled motorized transport known as the tuk-tuk or auto rickshaw.
1992 May Primera NATIVE-L (Aug. 11) “Philippines indigenous peoples threatened”: With my eyes closed, I could still feel the dust on my face as the “skylab” roared through the scabrous path and past the verdant groves. “Skylab” was the name the villagers had given the puny motorbike that could seat six people—one person in front of the driver, two behind him and two on each side of the horizontal slab of wood tied tightly to its rear like an outrigger. 1994 Robert H. Reid @ Salacafe, Philippines Associated Press (Oct. 2) “Life On The Margin: Village Life In The Philippines”: The sole means of public transport is a motorcycle service, which someone with a curious sense of humor dubbed “the Skylab.” Skylabs appear a few times a day. Up to five people, including women holding infants, cram aboard and pay 75 pesos—about three days’ wages for a farmhand—for a ride into town. 1998 Edilberto Alegre BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nov. 4) “Pinoy na Pinoy Gift from the mountains” p. 23: Already in the gold rush mountain of Diwalwal (Monkayo, Davao del Norte) they use the same Honda motorcycle differently—no side car but it accommodates as many as eight passengers. They call it “skylab,” for it zooms up the mountain like an American Skylab. 2004 S. Venkateswaran @ Birla Institute of Technology & Science Improving Mobility for the Rural Poor (Pilani, Rajasthan, India) (Jan. 12) “Workshop Programme”: Skylab Motorbike that can seat 6 persons. One person in front of the driver, 2 behind him and two on either side of the horizontal slab of wood tied to its rear like an outrigger. 2004 World Organisation Against Torture Compilation of Urgent Appeals, Open Letters and Press Releases (Geneva, Switzerland) (May 3) p. 100: The four were on board a skylab motorcycle when two vehicles, reportedly a red and white Tamarraw FX, blocked them somewhere in Maco, *2005 Robert Gardner Bundok Philippines (Apr. 12) “Guides—Mount Apo —Davao del Sur and North Cotabato Provinces”: Arrive New Israel by foot, jeepney or skylab (extended motorcycle). 2007 [joeyperez] @ Davao, Philippines YouTube (Jan. 29) “Unbelievable Motorcycle Ride”: Only in the philippines…who said a normal motorcycle can sit only 2 people? they call this ride “skylab.” from the famous satellite SkyLab. 2007 GMANNews.TV (Quezon City, Philippines) (May 31) “4 Caucasians seized by armed men in Cotabato—military”: The victims’ hands, whose hands were reportedly tied up, were loaded onto a “Skylab” motorcycle, a local term for a motorcycle fitted with planks that extend beyond its sides for seating additional passengers.
[1995 PR Newswire (July 10) “New Breast Enhancers ‘Look And Feel Like Raw Chicken Cutlets,’ Self Magazine Reports” (in New York City): A product called Intrigue, silicone-filled “breast enhancers,” fits in a bra, heats up to body temperature and promises increased cup size. (One drawback: The enhancers look and feel like raw chicken cutlets.)] [1999 Frazier Moore @ New York Toronto Star (Canada) (Sept. 7) “Miss Sally’s a sight for incarcerated eyes in Oz” p. 1: I guess my own body was good enough at the audition, but with the costumes they chose, it just wasn’t the “dream bust” they wanted.…They wanted something out of control. I had these things that look like chicken cutlets in my bra.] 2000 Cosmopolitan (Feb. 1) “Get Cosmo Cleavage” vol. 228, no. 2, p. 248: Secret weapon: Braza’s Silicone Bra Inserts. Place “cutlets” in nonstretch bra in front of breasts so their fake nipples align with yours. 2001 Tim Ryan Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Hawaii) (May 20) “Gorgeous men made the hard work go a bit easier”: All the nurses had these pretend bosom things that we would put into these period bras. We called the devices chicken cutlets; they beefed everything up a little bit. But it was so hot some days that I would take my little cutlet out and lay it down on the lunch table or somewhere and forget about it. 2003 [Amanda S.] Amanda-DS’s Blog (Horseheads, New York) (Aug. 5): I keep reading about the hollywood stars who use in their own words “chicken cutlets” silicone breasts for extra cleavage for award shows. I splurged and got a pair—I love them. They feel absolutely normal fill out the bra, fitted clothes with darts look like they are supposed too. 2005 The Fictive (July 23) “kicking at the traces”: I was quite thrilled today to finally get one of those chicken cutlet silicone bras. I imagined a land of spaghetti strap, perky boob cleavage awaited. Alas no. I think actual chicken cutlets would do a better job of supporting the gals. 2006 Fashionista Salon (Mar. 2) “‘Jen’ Doe”: “Chicken cutlets” is the name for silicone pads that women (indeed, virtually all actresses and models) slip into their bras to make their bust appear larger and perkier. They’re called “chicken cutlets” because that’s what they resemble. They’re also sometimes called “explants” because that’s basically what they are—silicone implants worn outside the body. The term “chicken cutlets” is the most commonly used term for these breast-enhancers in the fashion industry and Hollywood. She wasn’t talking about putting actual poultry in her bra people. 2006 PEERtrainer (Apr. 16) “Fat and flat?”: Well, now, it’s not only not snug, but I look ridiculous because it has boning in the chest AND I have no boobs !!! I do have some “chicken cutlet” silicone fake boobs, so I’m tempted to wear that with the dress. 2006 A.J. Hammer, Al Roker (CNN Headline News) (June 20) “Showbiz Tonight: Bruce Willis Suing Paparazzi for Slander”: HAMMER: But I understand there’s a whole new meaning to this term chicken cutlets, maybe you can enlighten me, if we want to be enlightened. ROKER: I hear chicken cutlet, I think Perdue. No, no, these are these silicone things that go into the women’s bras or bikini tops for the bathing suit that. HAMMER: They’re falsies is what you’re telling us. ROKER: Somewhat, but they look like chicken cutlets, so, but they’re made out of silicone. 2006 Cindy F. Crawford Daytona Beach News Journal (Oct. 1) “Survivor. A Portrait Of Strength”: Instead of surgery, she wears a prosthesis that fits into her bra. “We call it the chicken cutlet.” 2007 People (Apr. 2) “Scoop” vol. 67, no. 13, p. 19: That seemed to hold true for her cleavage as well. Chris Rock said, “I want her to be curvaceous!” So I was stuffing my bra with three layers of those chicken cutlet things you buy at Victoria’s Secret. 2007 Samantha Beck DentalPlans.com (May 29) “How to Find the Perfect Bra for Your Size”: Sometimes women who are between bra sizes find that their bras winkle and gather, causing annoying bra exposure underneath the shirt. To decrease wrinkles, silicone inserts, or cutlets as they are called, can be inserted into each bra cup. These gel pouches smooth out cups that are too big. Or try finding bras that come in half sizes.
2006 All Things Considered NPR (Apr. 4) “Senate Seeks to Shorten Debate on Immigration Bill”: WELNA: The main idea Republicans are considering is letting some of those here illegally stay, those who’ve been here more than five years, or those who overstayed visas. Florida Republican Mel Martinez said others in the country illegally should at least return to their countries of origin before applying for visas. It’s the so-called touchback provision.…Senator EDWARD KENNEDY (Democrat, Massachusetts): What’s right with taking people that are here for a period of time and then what, do they go across the border and have a bed check and then come back here? 2006 Frank James Chicago Tribune (Apr. 17) “Critics: Immigration bill bordering on unrealistic”: In addition, undocumented immigrants who have been in the United States for two to five years, no matter where they live, would have to travel back to a port-of-entry on the U.S. border, such as El Paso, Texas, and go back across the border to apply for guest-worker status. Upon performing this so-called touchback, these several million immigrants could immediately return to their U.S. homes. 2007 Randy Shaw BeyondChron (San Francisco, California) (Apr. 30) “Progressives Risk Bitter Split over Immigration Reform”: On one side are those who believe that progressives should not support federal legislation that offers less than complete and unconditional amnesty for undocumented immigrants. This means no compromises around “guest worker” policies, no mandates that immigrants first return to their native countries before returning as legal US immigrants—a process known as “touchback”—, and no different rules for longtime vs. recently arrived immigrants.
2005 Ed Kohler @ Minneapolis Mpls—Minneapolis Issues Forum (June 27) “Shoefiti”: Shoefiti…Beginning last fall, I started sending “Street Light Outage” reports to Xcel
whenever I spotted a pair of shoes on lines in our fair city. 2005 Ed Kohler Shoefiti (Sept. 13) “Welcome to Shoefiti.com”: Welcome to Shoefiti.com. This site will attempt to be the #1 resource on the web for dealing with shoes hanging from powerlines. 2007 Rob Seal Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia) (May 28) “‘Shoefiti’ phenomenon has no clear answer”: Shoes hanging from utility lines are an international phenomenon, and the possible causes are the subject of seemingly endless speculation. There’s even a newly coined word for it: “shoefiti,” a combination of shoes and graffiti.
1995 [Ellen Komp] Usenet: alt.drugs.pot (July 25) “Re: the DEA’s new tactic”: I hear that 30 pounds is about two days supply for the San Francisco Compassion Club, which supplies about 4,000 patients. I thought it sounded like a lot of pot until I heard that. Patients don’t just smoke once in a while—they need it every single day. 1995 Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia) (Aug. 9) “Drug Arrest Will Not Stop Advocate” (in Providence, Rhode Island) p. P3A: McCormick and his girlfriend were arrested while driving from San Diego to Providence to start a “compassion club” for seriously ill people who use marijuana to dull their pain. 1999 CBC Radio News (Canada) (Mar. 13) “World This Weekend: Program Summary for 14/3/99”: A report on Vancouver’s “Cannabis Compassion Club.” As the Canadian government prepares for clinical trials on the medical use of marijuana, the Club is already openly selling cannabis for medical relief. 2007 Richard Watt Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) (May 24) “Pot challenge gets high-profile help”: The society is one of two organizations in Victoria, and others worldwide, commonly called compassion clubs. These operations supply marijuana for use as medicine to people who show proof of a longstanding incurable medical condition such as HIV/AIDS or Parkinson’s disease.
1992 Pamela Yip Houston Chronicle (1) (Nov. 1) “Haunted by debt”: Kosciuszko said the mortgage insurance industry coined the term “jingle mail” because homeowners whose mortgages were worth far more than their homes literally mailed their house keys in to lenders. 1997 Davis Bushnell Boston Globe (Massachusetts) (Dec. 6) “Boom got away from many condo owners” p. G1: When the recession of the early 1990s hit, many owners of converted apartments in the Boston area, and especially those who had purchased them as investments, resorted to “jingle mail”—sending condo-unit keys to their banks or mortgage companies and walking away. 2006 Bill Fleckenstein MSN Money (Aug. 7) “Even if the Fed pauses, the trend is down”: I have heard about isolated cases of “jingle mail,” where homeowners have mailed in the keys because they can’t make the payments and no longer have any equity in their homes. That phrase was a prominent feature of the S&L bust and ensuing real-estate debacle in 1990-1991—and something we’ll be hearing lots more about in the future. 2007 Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia) (May 6) “Mortgage spike forcing evictions in the nice neighborhoods, too” (in California): In the great Southern California bust of the early 1990s, real estate legend holds, many defaulting homeowners mailed their keys back to the lenders, in effect washing their hands of the whole matter, and promptly left town. Thus was born the term “jingle mail.”
1994 Florence Fabricant New York Times (June 29) “Off the Menu” p. C2: To assist customers in selecting the appropriate teas to drink with each course there is a “tea sommelier” on hand. 1999 Steve Cuozzo New York Post (Jan. 6) “An Irregular Heartbeat” p. 45: This malarkey, and a “tea sommelier,” appear aimed at the impressionable young. But Heartbeat’s menu, with entrees pushing $30, is priced for adults. 2004 Grace Cameron The Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) (Apr. 29) “Tea, Tarot, and Tarts” p. F3: Tiny finger sandwiches, crumpets, Devonshire cream and delicate tea cups hard figure on my gastronomic landscape. And this place even has a Tea Sommelier (a highfalutin word for tea expert) for heavens sake! 2007 Kiera Butler New York Post (May 21) “Arising Number Of “Coworking” Spaces Bring Freelancers And Other Solo Workers Togethear”: We’ve had writers, someone from public radio in Sweden, and once a tea sommelier came and brewed tea for everyone.
1990 The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Dec. 14) “Olive Garden no delight” p. C1: And they have those happy-clappy waiters and waitresses who seem to love to sing birthday cheer, but appear to know next to nothing about the menu. 1991 Independent (London, United Kingdom) (Mar. 20) “Profile of the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury” p. 16: Equally, he will need to go out of his way to reassure people that he is not trying to create a thoroughly evangelical Church where everyone worships in a “happy-clappy” way. 1992 Stephen Bayley International Herald Tribune (Apr. 9) “In This Sterile Diorama, Life Is but a Theme”: You don’t have to be a happy-clappy Silicon Valley hippie to see that computer-driven virtual reality is set to upstage Euro Disney before the millennium. 1993 Andrew Marr Independent (London, United Kingdom) (Dec. 3) “Fear Holds The Key To The Future Of NATO”: Military alliances are as keen as anyone to cloak themselves in happy-clappy idealism. 1997 Financial Times (United Kingdom) (Feb. 6) “Unhappy Grumpy” p. 17: There again, his departure may not have been quite so abrupt as it at first appears. Of the eight top executives—nine if you include Mickey Mouse—photographed in the company’s happy-clappy annual report, he’s the only one who can’t raise a smile. 2004 Marcus Strom Green Left Weekly (New South Wales, Australia) (Aug. 11) “Red salute, Josh Heuchan” no. 593,: A sometimes member of the Socialist Alliance in Australia, Josh tired easily of the far left’s myopia. The continual “happy clappy” attitude of the left’s revivalism and its dead-end sect perspectives irked him. 2007 Linda Morris Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (May 19) “He’s on a musical mission for God”: The pejorative term happy clappys doesn’t apply to the music ministry of the son of Brian Houston, the flamboyant senior pastor of the Hillsong empire.
[1977 Hubert Ferdinand Opperman Pedals, Politics, and People p. 234: Morale is low. I confirm that from hearing quite bitter references to taking “meat tags” on flights and hoping parachutes will open.] 1990 Dudley Price, Wade Rawlins News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) (Aug. 19) “Gulf crisis hitting home across state Towns feel impact of troop deployments” p. A1: A few blocks down Lejeune Boulevard, Josef McDonald’s tattoo parlor had one customer. The business slowdown followed a flurry earlier in the week from departing Marines wanting “meat tags”—tattoos of their names, social security numbers and blood types inscribed on their left arms. “Nobody wants to be buried in an unmarked grave,” Mr. McDonald said. [1997 Peter Brune The Spell Broken: Exploding the Myth of Japanese Invincibility: Milne Bay to Buna-Sanananda 1942-43 p. 76: One of his 15 platoon sections moved eastward in search of wounded.…“We took the meat tags off two blokes.”] 1999 [Joe Raisin] Usenet: alt.recovery.aa (Sept. 28) “Re: Why “treatment” doesn’t work”: These guys are getting their dogtag information tattooed just below their armpits…OUCH! They call ’em “meat tags.” 2005 Buzz Williams Spare Parts (Feb. 7) p. 183: “What if you lose the head and the leg?”…“That’s why I have a meat tag.”…It was a tattoo on the skin over his rib cage with the same information contained on a metal ID tag. 2005 Colby Buzzell My War: Killing Time in Iraq (Oct.) p. 71: A meat tag is basically your dog-tag information (name, Social Security number, blood type, and religion) tattooed on your side, usually under your armpit. Soldiers get the meat-tag tattoo so that when and IED blows them into a million fucking pieces, there’s a better chance for the carcass to be identified. 2006 Paul Rieckhoff Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective (May 2) p. 4: A meat tag is a copy of the Army dog tag you wear around your neck, tattooed on your torso, just below your armpit. A meat tag isn’t just a hard-core status symbol. It’s a way to identify your body if the torso is all that remains after you’re blown apart. 2007 Oren Dorell @ Fort Drum, New York USA Today (May 20) “Troops get different tattoos leaving war”: Robbins says that when the war on terrorism started Fort Drum soldiers wanted to identify themselves in case they were killed. They’d get what are called “meat tags”—with their name, rank, blood type and Social Security number—tattooed on their ribs. They chose that location in case limbs were lost in an explosion.
1964 Los Angeles Times (Oct. 25) “Designers Agree on Furnishings Trend” p. S2: Pleased to see a strong movement away from matchy-matchy suites of furniture. To me, nothing is duller. 1985 Patricia Shelton Chicago Sun-Times (Illinois) (Sept. 22) “Designer builds lustrous career” p. 7: Remember that if you’re ever tempted to get a little matchy-matchy—except when you’re wearing emeralds, rubies or sapphires surrounded by diamonds with a matching gown. 2006 [Callie Miller] Counterbalance (Los Angeles, California) (Sept. 6) “When A Cover Is Just That (and when might it be more?)”: If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I harbor a particular brand of irritation for matchy matchy book covers. Particularly matchy book covers that seem designed to identify these books to readers as books that go together, should be purchased together, are related to one another and in general, seem to scream “this is more about marketing than the quality of the writing.” 2006 San Francisco Chronicle (Dec. 6) “Setting a festive table”: To achieve a table that isn’t too matchy-match, Hotchkiss—the creative director of Alison Events—offers several affordable places to shop: “I always look online—eBay, Craigslist—vintage or second-hand stores like Goodwill.” 2007 [Miss Lime] @ Los Angeles Weddingbee (May 18) “Ties For Our Guys”: Yes, I’m getting matchy matchy here [see invite paper and bridesmaid dress swatch]. I very much dislike the matchy matchy. However, I dislike shopping even more.
[1948 (Mar. 1) (in Houston, Texas) @ New York Times (Feb. 3, 1950) “Styles Nominated As N.L.R.B. Member” p. 15: Since we are now in the heart of Texas, most of you know that some million years ago a number of large, wooly animals walked the plains of Texas as monarchs of all they surveyed. These animals, these so-called wooly boogers, were dinosaurs.…They had an extremely small brain.…If you don’t keep developing your brain, as well as your arms, you may wind up in the same position those ancient wooly boogers did.…Quit howling about a slave labor law and…settle down and go to work and try to develop your organizing and negotiating techniques in accordance with the new law.] 1959 Jim Monroe @ Oklahoma City Ada Evening News (Oklahoma) (Jan. 9) “State House Brews Storm” p. 1: “Why, we’re liable to be here until the Fourth of July,” declared Rep. John Levergood of Shawness and woollybooger fame. Levergood considers himself a watchdog in the House and bounces to the microphone to denounce any bill he considers woolybooger. 1960 Fresno Bee (California) (Feb. 19) “Help Wanted” (in classifieds) p. 7-C: Wooly bugger lures 1962 Evening Sentinel (Holland, Michigan) (June 14) “Definitely” p. 4: Woolly-booger is cowboy talk for any wild revelry. San Antonio is going to start its annual Fiesta, or woollybooger, on April 21. [1966 D.K. Wilgus Journal of American Folklore, (Oct.-Dec.) ““Field” Recordings” p. 632: McCormick opines that (here?) boogie woogie “is not a musical reference but an outgrowth of bogie or bogie man. Considering the sexual connotation of boogie woogie (woolly booger in central Kentucky), we seem to have a vagina dentata motif.] 1986 John Keasler Atlanta Journal (Georgia) (Nov. 11) “Pinknecks are confusing great redneck debate” p. A/11: Only a couple of weeks ago, on a visit home, I saw what at first looked like a redneck—he had him a tall wooly booger of a high-rider pickup and that job had more spotlights on it than the entire Plant City police force owns and he was tooling along spitting and scratching with this dawg on a chain back in the truck bed. 1987 Bruce Whitman Harrisburg Patriot (Pennsylvania) (Feb. 13) “Ryan, Holbrook capture fly-tying championships” p. D6: A forum…gave spectators ample opportunity to observe first-hand the delicate and demanding skills required to create a bit of hook and fluff realistic enough to fool a wild trout.…Juniors worked on the Woolly Booger; Hare’s Ear nymph and Fur Body ant. 1992 Victoria Loe Dallas Morning News (Texas) (Apr. 17) “Meek: ‘I went in there with good intentions’” p. 25A: “Paul is kind of a bull moose type,” says a former associate who asked not to be named. “He doesn’t learn,” says Mr. Moss, who refers to his former boss as “a big old wooly booger.” 1992 D.R. Segal Orange County Register (California) (Sept. 6) “The Rev. Jack is not part of Gore’s jet set” p. G04: On yonder table,” said the Rev. Jack Daniel, “you will find Old No. 7 tonic and blood purifier which exhibits remarkable medicinal properties. I would suggest you pour each of us a tot or two to ward off the Woolly Booger Fever which often strikes without warning in these parts on a September evening.” 1992 Jim Wright Dallas Morning News (Texas) (Oct. 25) “Yes, but what about varmints’ garments?” p. 7J: Wooly worm analysts from miles around, in convention assembled, gravely discussed the state of the 1992 wooly worms’ fur.…Texans, of course, know that this is nonsense. And by the way, we also know that the actual, proper name for this little varmint is “wooly booger.” 1993 Billy Porterfield Austin American-Statesman (Texas) (Apr. 25) “Profits get priority in picking which ram to put out to pasture” p. B1: But Old Man Harden said no, that he wasn’t in the business of sentiment, and that while it was a woolly booger of a call, he had to go with a young hot hand who had a future over an old master in his last bloom. 1993 Philip Stent Houston Chronicle (Texas) (Sept. 5) “The breakfast society” p. 4: Looks like a woolly booger of a storm brewing up. 1996 Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (May 30) “Inside Track Etobicoke’s Lord Of The Flies” p. P10: “It’s like a woolly bugger,” the 61-year-old doctor explains as he wraps the green herl of a peacock feather around the metal shank of a fishhook, “but I’m going to tie it like a cockatouche.” 1996 Libby Quaid @ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Associated Press) (Aug. 22) “Utility Watchdog Runs for Corporation Commission”: Ms. Peltier has been just as determined to read every word of the legislation that crosses her desk, often to the consternation of fellow members, to keep anyone from sneaking a “woolly booger” past the House. “I get up at 3 a.m. to read the bills, and that’s true,” she said. 1997 Michael Montgomery @ Dictionary of Smokey Mountain English (2004) Michael Montgomery, Joseph S. Hall p. 657: Anything or anyone frightful looking, as “he looked like a wooly booger with that long hair and ragged clothes.” 1997 New Orleans Times-Picayune (Louisiana) (May 30) “Baton Rouge Report News And Views From The Louisiana Legislature” p. A3: Rep. Robert Barton, R-Bossier City, introducing his bill to exempt Shreveport-area riverboat casinos from Coast Guard inspections. “I’m not bringing you a wooly-booger.” 2001 Tim Talley @ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Associated Press) (Apr. 18) “House passes right-to-work initiative”: “Right to work is a chamber of commerce woolly booger designed to confuse the public,” said Rep. Don Ross, D-Tulsa. 2005 Guillermo Bartelt Style (Dec. 1) “Hegemonic Registers in Momaday’s House Made of Dawn” vol. 39, no. 4,: “Physiologically, the salient characteristic of peyote is its production of visual hallucinations or color visions, as well as kinesthetic, olfactory, and auditory derangements.” Or, to put it another way, that little old woolly booger turns you on like a light, man. Daddy peyote is the vegetal representation of the sun. 2007 Julie Bisbee NewsOK (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) (May 16) “Law ends towns’ trap designation…”: Smithson, also a retired state trooper, called Roan’s amendment a “woolly-booger,” a colloquial term for last-minute language inserted in a bill that has far-reaching impact. “He’s a very sharp House member, and he saw an opportunity to get a woolly-booger right in the middle of this bill,” said Smithson. “Nobody bothered to read it because it was a clean-up bill.”
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1975 Jules Witcover Washington Post (Oct. 26) “McGovern Takes Blame for ’72” p. 3: The nature of the caucus, or as it is sometimes call the “firehouse primary” because voting takes place in an open room rather than in a closed polling booth, requires more personal, diligent grass-roots organization and wooing of party activists than do most primaries. 1984 Phil Gailey New York Times (Mar. 18) “Mondale Is Victor In Michigan Vote; Also In Arkansas”: In most caucuses, voters debate party platform resolutions, elect local party committee members and then divide into groups according to their Presidential preference. The only item on the Michigan caucus agenda, however, is the Presidential voting, and in that sense, it more resembles a primary than a caucus. “It’s a firehouse primary disguised as a caucus,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “It’s legal even though it’s unfair.” 1999 Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Virginia’s Judicial System (Nov. 15) “Commonwealth of Virginia Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee Opinion 99-6”: Political parties in the Commonwealth of Virginia generally employ four methods for selecting party nominees…(3) party canvass or unassembled caucus, also called a “firehouse primary.”…A dissenting argument might be made that although “firehouse primaries,” which typically are restricted to party members and may contain some form of loyalty oath, are political gatherings, primary elections conducted by the State Board of Elections are not political gatherings because all voters may participate. 2000 Scott Hogenson Cybercast News Service (Feb. 23) “Ask For Whom the Bellwether Tolls”: It can also be argued that Tuesday’s results were just another quirky anomaly in Michigan politics, like…Jesse Jackson’s stunning performance in the 1988 Democratic “firehouse” primary. 2000 Richard E. Berg-Andersson The Green Papers (Aug. 16) “Election 2000: South Carolina Democrat”: The presidential primary in South Carolina is known as a “firehouse primary,” as it is being held in conjunction with the party’s precinct meetings at which local party officers are elected and delegates are chosen for the party’s county conventions. 2007 Todd Jackson Roanoke Times (Virginia) (Mar. 8) “Rare, intraparty primary challenges both set for June 12”: In a firehouse primary, a limited number of voting locations are chosen within a legislative district and ballots are cast on one day within a set amount of time, usually shorter than a regularly scheduled election. The party that chooses a firehouse primary is also responsible for organizing, staffing and monitoring such an election. 2007 Chelyen Davis Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia) (May 14) “4 GOP Senate hopefuls in forum”: Chichester announced earlier this spring that he will retire at the end of this term. That sparked an intra-party battle over the nomination method, with one faction favoring an open primary and the other pushing for a Republicans-only method. The result is what’s known as a firehouse primary, which is run by the party, with limited polling places, and open only to Republicans. Voters on Saturday will have to sign an oath vowing to support the Republican nominee in the general election in November.
1929 W.P. Hedden How Great Cities Are Fed @ Journal of Business of the University of Chicago (Apr. 2, 1930) Joseph G. Knapp vol. 3, no. 2, p. 263: Watersheds, Milksheds, and Foodsheds. 1933 Martin D. Stevers Steel Trails: The Epic of the Railroads p. 92: When the population grows to where it eats all that such a “food-shed” can grow, there you have your limit to size. 1970 J. F. Riegelhaupt; S. Forman Journal of Economic History (Mar.) “Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural Development among a Contemporary Peasantry” vol. 30, no. 1, p. 111: According to a study undertaken in the Recife foodshed area…,the lower 58 percent of families spent approximately 70 percent of their income on food. 2002 Kim Severson San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Aug. 14) “Heart & soul of an inn”: But where Waters’ foodshed stretches as far south as Chino ranch near San Diego, Grade’s ingredients are gathered from at most a 15-mile radius or no more than a half hour from the lodge. Much of it comes from people she considers neighbors and friends. Plus, Grade hunts and fishes and forages herself. 2006 Michael Pollan Mother Jones (May) “No Bar Code”: He went on to explain that Polyface does not ship long distance, does not sell to supermarkets, and does not wholesale its food. All of the meat and eggs that Polyface produces is eaten within a few dozen miles or, at the most, half a day’s drive of the farm—within the farm’s “foodshed.”
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2007 The Hotline (Washington, D.C.) (Mar. 12) “Hunt For Red November”: CW holds that dark horses will be hurt most by the 2/5 Tsunami Tuesday, but maybe not. Remember: most GOP contests are winner-take-all. The field could easily split. Maybe Rudy will win NY. McCain gets CA. Romney wins FL. Red November wins TX. 2007 David Von Drehle Time (May 10) “Behind Giuliani’s Pro-Choice Gamble”: Giuliani’s move is a clear bet that social conservatives’ power in the nominating process will be broken bv [sic] Tsunami Tuesday—the Feb. 5 super-primary featuring such mass-market states as New York, California and New Jersey. 2007 Chuck Todd MSNBC (May 10) “Will Tsunami Tuesday be an afterthought?”: February 5, a.k.a. “Tsunami Tuesday,” is not just going to be anchored by California’s primary. Other big states, like New York, New Jersey, Illinois and possibly Texas, are going to be on the same day.