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- From: michael@albert.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
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- Subject: Re: The Dan Quayle Dikshunary
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 03:34:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.195834.8853@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In-reply-to: ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com's message of 23 Dec 92 12:41:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.124116.6700@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> ralph@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (ralph.winslow) writes:
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- =In <1h80goINN1gt@network.ucsd.edu> fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister) wrote:
- =>In <1992Dec22.195834.8853@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pat@sphinx.phys.Virginia.EDU (pat walsh) wrote:
- =>>Herbert Rutledge writes:
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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...
- =>I think 'nattering nabobs of negativism' was one of Safire's
- =>effusions.
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- =I think Pat had it right, Spiro did both "natering nabobs" and "an effete
- =corps of impudent snobs" a corps to which I subsequently and I might add,
- [deletia]
-
- =Ralph
-
- Spiro may have said it, but "nattering nabobs", I believe,
- was penned by Safire.
-
- Check the cover article written on Bush by Safire in the New York
- Times Sunday Magazine, If I'm not mistaken he expresses some pride in
- it. (This was the article on why Safire might not vote for Bush- I
- don't remeber the date, unfortunately.)
-
- My $.02,
- Chaplin.
-
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