Klarinet Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2006/02

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Morons, Chestnuts and other cases of going nuts (Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:13:50 -0500

as Phil Rizzuto would say: "Oh maron!" (usually in
the context of a Bobby Murcer error)

--- danyel <rab@-----.de> wrote:

> Really, thank you all, it has been a while since I
> had such a good laugh!
> Could be from a Seinfeld episode!
> Yet even the Seinfeld writers would hardly have had
> the boldness to call a
> Jewish character Rommel! *Ich atme Luft von anderm
> Planeten!*
>
> Best wishes and PLEASE carry on with this kind of
> stuff!
> danyel
> www.echoton.de/clar.html
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller"
> <rjmiller@-----.net>
>
>
> > I looked in both Webster's 9th Collegiate and
> Collins' 2nd Edition English
> > Dictionaries and both define "moron" in the
> derogatory sense, with no
> > mention of chestnuts; I haven't gone as far as the
> OED yet, but I am
> certain
> > either Webster or Collins' would've included a
> mention of a "nut" in the
> > etymology if there were in fact one to be had from
> the OED's definitive
> > definition.
> >
>
> ***
>
> Correction! I meant "I do wish we would NOT call
> each names like
> moron" -- That was my mistake, and I take full
> responsibility for it.
>
> Sorry
>
> Rafi
>
>
>
>
>
>
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