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[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Snippy and everyone here at the Freeper Foxhole.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning snippy and Sam, everyone.

[GailA]

Good Morning

[The Mayor]

Goin to Church, I'll be back ..

[manna]

Present!

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Snippy.

I didn't know about the assassination attempt on Seward. I learned something new again.

As a piece of trivia:

Thank heavens for books, therefore, especially ones such as "Devious Derivations," written by Hugh Rawson and published by Crown. Mr Rawson devotes an entire page in his book to the theory you have evidently heard: that the phrase "Your name will be mud" is connected somehow to the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd who treated President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Doctor Mudd may or may not have been in on the 1865 assassination conspiracy with Booth, who had broken his leg escaping from the scene of his crime. In any case, Mudd was convicted of conspiracy in the trial that followed, and his name, to the general public, certainly became "mud" in the sense of the phrase -- despised and reviled.

But Doctor Mudd's name is certainly no more than an interesting coincidence, for it cannot have been the source of the phrase. "Mud" had already been in use for more than 200 years, since at least 1708, as a slang term for a fool. According to Christine Ammer, in her book "Have A Nice Day -- No Problem!" (a very fine dictionary of cliches published by Plume), "mud" was commonly applied in the 19th century British Parliament to any member who lost an election or otherwise disgraced himself.

http://www.word-detective.com/100297.html

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great thread, Snippy. Thank you.

I like this graphic, hope you like it too.