Date:    Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:47:45 -0500
<br>From:    Fred Shapiro  fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Slimed
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<br>On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Tom Head wrote:
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<br>  Would this mean that the word actually came from _Ghostbusters_ (1985)?
<br>  I'd always thought the movie got it from another source.
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<br>The term was probably popularized by _Ghostbusters_, and this is probably
<br>where the political usage came from.  But it was used on Nickelodeon (I
<br>don't have the name of the exact show handy as I'm typing this) prior to
<br>_Ghostbusters_.
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