I loved the Wooly summation, Mr B! and this rang a bell, in particular:

"We have had in this case the advantage of the expert testimony of nineteen well-known writers and authors, fourteen literary critics, seven editors, and two philologists. And the one thing that emerges from this mass of informed opinion is that the expression complained of must be the most remarkable word in common use to-day. For though each of these authorities came prepared with a full and impressive theory of the origin and significance of the word, no two of these explanations were in any respect the same...."

Now if he had only asked for expert witnesses from the ranks of AWADtalk...!