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#17723 01/31/01 06:41 PM
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Thanks to tsuwm's reference to Michael Quinon's page on shaggy dogs from this post:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=14808
I was able to make an earlier citation than that recorded in the OED for the phrase "shaggy dog story". This citation, the 1/14/43 daily strip of the Barnaby comic strip, has been forwarded to the OED by Mr. Quinon in my name and he has sent me their acknowledgement of my contribution.


#17724 01/31/01 07:01 PM
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Whoa! Way to go! [emphatic nod emoticon]


#17725 01/31/01 07:03 PM
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Imagine! Our Faldage in the OED!! Congratulations.


#17726 01/31/01 07:07 PM
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Mad props to you both!


#17727 01/31/01 07:07 PM
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congrats, David! maybe this will be the start of something... er... significant, a la 'The Professor and the Madman".


#17728 01/31/01 07:55 PM
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Kewl!! That's just aaahsim!

Well done, as soon as I sell a kidney or three, I'll put down a deposit on a copy of the OED. It will be worth it to see an ayleur's name in it.


#17729 01/31/01 08:04 PM
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I doubt if they'll mention me by name, but if you see 1/14/1943 (or 14/I/1943), Barnaby comic strip, Mr O'Malley "I might have known it, m'boy! Worse and worse!... He's telling Shaggy Dog Stories!" you can say, "I know who told them about that one."


#17730 01/31/01 09:28 PM
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Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah !
I have lit the lamps and hereby call all the initiate together to sing hymns of praise for our Faldage.
wow


#17731 02/01/01 01:36 AM
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... hymns of praise for our Faldage.

Now praise we all our well-beloved Faldage,
Whose well-manuréd pastures make for well-dig-
Ested ayleuritic peroration ...
Not least of all an OED citation!

(OK, OK, it was the best I could do with "citation", off the top of me noodle.)

regards, and congrats, lusy


#17732 02/01/01 04:30 AM
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Congratulations - we'll turn you into "a harmless drudge" yet!



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