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- From: fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:15:04 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <1992Dec22.195834.8853@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) writes:
- >Herbert Rutledge writes:
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- >> This entire lexical exercise, for which we are indebted to Jeff Wilder,
- >> is an outstanding example of:
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- >> spirology n: the study of deviant vice-presidential behavior
- >
- >...often signaled by the dubious distinction of destructive, divisive discourse
- >from the permanently, prodigiously and proudly poison pens of basically
- >bombastic, backward-looking, bench-warming Buchanans (didn't he write the
- >"nattering nabobs of negativism" speech) and their ilk...
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- I think 'nattering nabobs of negativism' was one of Safire's
- effusions.
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