Date:    Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:36:49 -0500
<br>From:    Evan Morris  words1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORD-DETECTIVE.COM 
<br>Subject: Re: RE Re: RE "Till the last dog dies"
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<br>At 08:12 PM 2/26/98 -0500, Grant Barrett wrote:
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<br> From: Evan Morris
<br>   Has anyone here actually seen this particular strip?=A0 It strikes me =
<br>as very
<br>uncharacteristic of the
<br>   usual tone of _Peanuts_.
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<br> Please.
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<br>Please?  I think you want the Valspeak thread.
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<br>  I was merely remembering t
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<br>Date:    Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:20:39 EST
<br>From:    "Barry A. Popik"  Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM 
<br>Subject: "Till the last dog dies"
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<br>     "Mugger" (a Conservative columnist, probably publisher Russ Smith) writes
<br>in this week's NEW YORK PRESS, Feb. 25--March 3, 1998, pg. 6, col. 4:
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<br>The _Washington Post_'s Mary McGrory, a bleeding heart till the last dog
<br>dies...
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<br>     And on page 9, col. 1:
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<br>Begala wasn't the only exile invited to the Last Dogs club, as Howard Fineman
<br>dubbed it in _Newsweek_...
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<br>     This COULD be the phrase-of-the-year.  Anyone read _Newsweek_?
<br>     In the New York Times, 4 May 1997, section 4, pg. 15, William Safire
<br>wrote that "The name of the game is 'Stonewall'...Deny till the last dog
<br>dies."
<br>     A 12 February 1998 article by Walter Shapiro on USA TODAY Online
<br>(www.usatoday.com) ended:
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<br>     Six years ago, his campaign in tatters, Clinton gave the speech of his
<br>life at an Elks Club in Dover, telling New Hampshire voters that he would
<br>remember their support until "the last dog died."  Tuesday night, Clinton did
<br>not rise to those majestic heights, but neither did he falter in his moment of
<br>supreme peril.
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<br>     The California Folklore Quarterly (now Western Folklore), July 1946,
<br>"Folk Sayings in a Pioneer Family of Western Oregon," pg. 230, has:
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<br>5.  He'll stay till the last dog's hung.
<br>     He never leaves until there is no longer a pretext for staying.
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<br>     This is even after the fat lady has sung.  This is absolutely the bitter
<br>end.
<br>     I feel for Buddy!
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