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ADS-L Digest - 17 May 1998 to 18 May 1998 98-05-19 00:00:14
There are 11 messages totalling 358 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

1. Scumbag; Midget/Dwarf; Pop-Up; Valedictory; Hello; Night Hawks; Gal
2. "Is it raining out?"
3. -core, Plus Veering Tangents
4. enqueued
5. nativisms (4)
6. ADS-L Archive Search Improved
7. Query re administration of graduate degrees in Applied Lx
8. Law/Principle of Least Effort

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Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:08:20 -0700
From: Bill King
Subject: Re: Scumbag; Midget/Dwarf; Pop-Up; Valedictory; Hello; Night Hawks;
Gal

If we are to get into this in depth, we'll have to add douchebag as a
semi-parallel term and take into count jazz references to skins as
drumheads and skins as condoms -- or more likely rubbers or
prophylactics.

Let's face it. A scumbag isn't a gladbag with a capital G.