Date:  Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:45:40 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



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> Date:     Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:43:45 -0500

> From: "L-Soft list server at UGA (1.8b)" <LISTSERV[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu>

> Subject:   ADS-L: error report from ACT.ORG

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>The enclosed message, found in the ADS-L mailbox and shown under the spool ID

>1982 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error notice

>for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field pointing to

>the list has been found in mail body.

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> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 95 08:43:50 CST

> From: Kekke[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]act.org

> Subject: Re: ?Earliest Citation o

>

> In my high school in northern Minnesota in the late 50s, a common variant of

> this expression (which I don't think has surfaced so far in this discussion)

> among a certain lowlife subgroup of my classmates was "BITE THE BAG."

> It was pretty commonly understand that "bag" referred to scrotum.

> _____________________________________________________________________________

> Subject: Re: ?Earliest Citation o

> From:  "Richard A. Spears" <72103.2357[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]COMPUSERVE.COM> at internet

> Date:  10/30/95 4:12 PM

>

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> I think the *Bite me!* business is just about played out, but I wanted to ask

> if there was any particular reason why the original request was for a printed

> citation--or the date when the expression was first in print. Few of the

> responses actually gave a print date and the earliest recollections are about

> 30 years before the 1977 date given in Lighter. Does the person who began this

> thread want to comment on the need for an in-print date?

>

> Incidentally, I first heard it in high school, 1954-1957, and never knew

> exactly what it meant, if indeed the guys who used it knew themselves.

>

> R. Spears

>