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To: Sam Hill
Thank you for tracking that down. Just like the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, in finding the first use of a word or phrase.

John / Billybob
559 posted on 08/06/2006 3:23:17 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Have a look-see. Please get involved.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

Well, it still might not be the first use of the word. I'll ask the OED people to track it down.

I suspect it might have been coined by Limbaugh or one of his callers. At least he/they probably gave it popular parlance.

But since the poster I cited, Wayne Mann, was a big deal on the alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater usenet group in its hey day during the early to mid '90s.

So it might have gotten its start from there.

Not that it's that much of a phrase anyway. It certainly doesn't rank with "vanity" or "disruptor" or some others that come to mind.

LOL


561 posted on 08/06/2006 3:57:02 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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