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meaning tabloids. Get over 12,000 hits but only a few hundred -uk -au -nz -nu -aussie -brit -british -cockney
Therefore in your most valuable opinion can I not reasonably assume that this term is rare leftpondwise , or at least obscure
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never heard it. thought you might be talking about ConverseŽ All-Star hi-tops... 
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or a non-misnomer for carrot top
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Nope. Red tops.
Newspapers whose mastheads are (or were) printed with red ink to make them stand out on the stand.
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DRAFT ADDITIONS SEPTEMBER 2003 ŠOED3
* A. adj.
Brit. [With allusion to the red background on which the titles of certain British newspapers are printed.] Of or relating to a tabloid newspaper.
* B. n.
Brit. A tabloid newspaper.
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The people who took over the Chuck Taylor line of high-top tennies sent me an e-mail offering me green ones, just for the Feast of Blessed Patrick of Ireland.
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I was in journalism for 20 years and never heard the expression, fwiw.
(this is re: Dale, not re: Fr Steve, I went all flatline and forgot who I was sposed to be responding to)
Last edited by AnnaStrophic; 03/08/06 06:37 PM.
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> Chuck Taylor I have a great pair of purple ones, with matching purple laces, but alas, they're a bit too worn for school wear. now I'm wearing my "distressed black". very cool. you now may go back to your regularly scheduled Conversation...
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I've never heard that expression Dale. Where are you from? Do you think it is a regionalism?
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bel: Neither had I and that's why I speculated it must either be very obscure and/or an almost exclusively rightpond expression
I am from the Midwest and California
Anna: I have often done that too and that's why I usu prefer "Quick reply" rather than "Reply " or "Quote" so that if I forget what I'm saying or whom I'm saying it to I can scroll up for a quick review
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