Re: TAN: new words [was: RE: LONG: Latest Wenetaic Stuff]
From: | Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 30, 1999, 5:29 |
Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
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> ... it seems to me that the -gate thing started out as a pun. I =
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> Whitewatergate was the first,
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Whitewater scandal by many years. Koreagate was during the late 70's.
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Dennis Paul Himes <> dennis@himes.connix.com
homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
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