#17723
01/31/2001 6:41 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=14808I 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.
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#17724
01/31/2001 7:01 PM
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Whoa! Way to go! [emphatic nod emoticon]
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#17725
01/31/2001 7:03 PM
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enthusiast
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Imagine! Our Faldage in the OED!! Congratulations.
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#17726
01/31/2001 7:07 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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#17727
01/31/2001 7:07 PM
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congrats, David! maybe this will be the start of something... er... significant, a la 'The Professor and the Madman". 
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#17728
01/31/2001 7:55 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. 
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#17729
01/31/2001 8:04 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."
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#17730
01/31/2001 9:28 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
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#17731
02/01/2001 1:36 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
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#17732
02/01/2001 4:30 AM
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Congratulations - we'll turn you into "a harmless drudge" yet! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#17733
02/01/2001 12:01 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Maximum 'gratters, old chap, for an absolutely spiffing performance. I nominate Faldage for the very first of the prestigious AWAD AWArDs for achievement beyond the posts. And with due respects to tsuwm for aiding and abetting him. [enthusiastic-round-of-applause-leading-to-standing-ovation icon]
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#17734
02/01/2001 12:01 PM
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Well done. I'm impressed.
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#17735
02/01/2001 12:39 PM
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Aw, shucks, guys. I didn't expect such an outpouring.
All seriousness aside, I can't think of another board that I know of that would recognize the import of such a distinction.
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#17736
02/01/2001 1:00 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Well, I guess any board with a few commercial types on it would recognise the import of exports
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#17737
02/01/2001 10:25 PM
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Well, I guess any board with a few commercial types on it would recognise the import of exports
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#17738
02/01/2001 10:53 PM
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Adding my salutations and congratulations! We bask in the reflected light of your glory, David.
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#17739
02/01/2001 11:48 PM
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Very, very cool news, Faldage.
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#17740
02/01/2001 11:50 PM
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Fabulous Faldage. A hearty congratulations from the Canadian front.
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#17741
02/10/2001 10:26 PM
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