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- From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
- Subject: Re: Inauguration Parade Coverage (Was: Statistical bullshit)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:08:10 GMT
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- In <1993Jan28.035432.5579@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bill Berbenich) writes:
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- >>Peeve: "First Lady". What are they going to do when Dianne Feinstein
- >> becomes President in the year 2000? Call Blum the "First Man"?
- >> Sounds like an anthro project.
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- >He'll be "First Gentleman." Gentleman and Lady are the respective terms
- >used by landed gentry and other polite folk.
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- First Mate.
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- ben
- fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bloomington, IN)
- "Verbing weirds language" - Calvin
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