Date:  Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:56:05 -0800

From:  Sylvia Swift <madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU>

Subject: Re: Letterman the linguist?



On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Jerry Miller wrote:



> Of late, David Letterman has been using a word, "gespinkto" (or

> "gesfinkto"?), which seems to mean something like "finished," "kaput,"

> (it's) "history." Does anyone know if this word has any basis in reality, or

> is it just something our gap-toothed goofball from Indiana dreamed up?



i hate to practice seat-of-the-pants etymology, but surely this is

"gesphincto" = having been sphinctered = having passed through the

sphincter = having been processed and discarded. is ge + root + o

pseudo-german?



sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet