Date:  Wed, 16 Nov 1994 10:03:00 CST

From:  Tom Murray <TEM[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]KSUVM.BITNET>

Subject: "it's been a slice . . ."



I don't know anything about the phrase "it's been a slice . . . ", but I can't

help noticing that it bears a striking resemblance, both structurally and seman

tically, to other phrases that I've used/heard/wondered about: "it's been grea

t"; "it's been real"; and so forth. Could one have spawned the others? Surely

 all this is not one large linguistic coincidence?