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Re: out of whack

#6188 09/12/2000 2:35 PM

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this too shall pass

tsuwm

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tsuwm

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Posts: 10,542
this too shall pass

okay, there is some evidence that whack, as a noun, had the sense of condition or state before the slang phrase was coined. W3 gives this citation:
<The tycoon is is fine whack -John Hay, 1905>

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out of whack elistar01 09/08/2000 7:22 PM

Re: out of whack Jazzoctopus 09/08/2000 9:57 PM

Re: out of whack elistar01 09/09/2000 2:34 AM

Re: out of whack Jackie 09/09/2000 3:29 PM

Re: out of whack tsuwm 09/09/2000 4:02 PM

Re: out of whack elistar01 09/12/2000 2:19 PM

Re: out of whack tsuwm 09/12/2000 2:35 PM

Re: out of whack elistar01 09/10/2000 4:17 PM

Re: out of whack Jazzoctopus 09/10/2000 10:40 PM

Re: out of whack wsieber 09/12/2000 4:43 AM

Re: out of whack Jackie 09/12/2000 9:58 AM

Re: out of whack Jazzoctopus 09/09/2000 4:10 PM

Re: out of whack elistar01 09/09/2000 4:32 PM

Re: out of whack Jackie 09/10/2000 1:53 AM

Re: out of whack Brandon 09/11/2000 1:08 PM

Re: out of whack Jazzoctopus 09/11/2000 8:12 PM

Re: out of whack AnnaStrophic 09/12/2000 12:07 AM

Re: out of whack Max Quordlepleen 09/12/2000 12:34 AM

Re: Sydney AnnaStrophic 09/13/2000 12:58 PM

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Re: Sydney Jazzoctopus 09/13/2000 8:25 PM

Re: Sydney Max Quordlepleen 09/13/2000 10:38 PM

Re: Sydney Jackie 09/14/2000 12:57 AM

Re: Sydney Bingley 09/14/2000 4:46 AM

Re: Sydney Max Quordlepleen 09/14/2000 5:01 AM

Re: Sydney AnnaStrophic 09/14/2000 10:56 AM

Re: out of whack johnjohn 09/14/2000 8:11 AM

Re: big cities AnnaStrophic 09/14/2000 11:05 AM

Re: big cities Jackie 09/14/2000 12:20 PM

Re: big cities AnnaStrophic 09/14/2000 1:05 PM

Re: big cities tsuwm 09/14/2000 1:20 PM

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Re: big cities Jackie 09/14/2000 2:17 PM

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Re: big cities Bingley 09/15/2000 4:23 AM

Re: carpets - now what was the original topic? jmh 09/15/2000 7:23 AM

Re: carpets - now what was the original topic? Bingley 09/18/2000 4:20 AM

Re: 2001 paulb 09/15/2000 10:36 AM

Re: out of whack lusy 09/09/2000 8:17 AM

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