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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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Whoa! Way to go! [emphatic nod emoticon]
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Imagine! Our Faldage in the OED!! Congratulations.
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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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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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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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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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... 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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Congratulations - we'll turn you into "a harmless drudge" yet!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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