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> This Board is responsible...
I think wordorigins might have something to say about that...
and we're seldom accused of being responsible hereabouts!
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One fine baseball afternoon on June 15th, 1923, the New York Yankees' first baseman, Wally Pipp, was injured and one Lou Gehrig substitued for him...and then never missed the line-up for another 2,130 games thus earning the nickname "The Iron Horse." A record that stood, BTW, till Cal Ripken, Jr. broke it just few years back. So you could say that Wally was "pipped." That the etymology, there, Faldo? 
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Good heavens, that little bald dude is Mini Me? I've heard the term, and seen his picture, but never put the two together (NO I have NOT seen the movie!). Interesting that his window was mini, also.
And no, I wasn't referring to Minnie Mouse, dang it!
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Dr. Bill is not the first of us to attain fame there: hi mav!
And I too have had the pleasure of submitting a comment that was deemed worthy of being passed along, I-don't-remember-how-long-ago...and it turned out to be the beginning of all the spam I have ever received.
It wasn't long after that that contributors began to be identified as "readerATdomainname" instead of "reader@domainname" so I may not have been the only one with that experience.
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That the etymology, there, Faldo?Aside from the fact that the Wally Pipp-Lou Gehrig story is pure bunk ( http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/pipp.asp) the OED has a citation for pip in this sense from 1891. Wally Pipp was aproximately minus two years old in 1891. http://wally-pipp.biography.ms/
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Oh, wofa, I am SO sorry! Sorry that I didn't credit you, and even sorrier that I never read what you had to say. That had to have been one I skipped...
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> identified as "readerATdomainname"
right, wofa - I had queried this with Anu years back when I got my first circular, probably one of many, and I have no doubt that was part of his learning curve in this medium!
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pure bunk
Hold on there, Faldo...Gehrig was substituted for Pipp whether it be for a headache, fractured skull, or just replaced because he was slumping. So pure bunk is pretty hyberbolic there, ol' buddy.
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