[Elfsea] Snollygoster no more

[Matthew G. Saroff]

Slightly off topic, but it's sad when a word with such a Dickensian sound
dies.

Websters will be dropping the word, snollygoster: a shrewd, unprincipled
person, especially a politician.  Last used publicly by Harry S Truman.

"The origin is unknown, though the Oxford English Dictionary suggests it
may be linked to snallygoster, which some suppose to derive from the
German schnelle Geister, literally a fast-moving ghost, and which was a
mythical monster of vast size -- half reptile, half bird . . ."

See the url.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/24/DD160008.DTL

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--Sfi Mordehai ben Yosef Yitzhak, Aka Matthew G. Saroff

This is not the Dream.  This is what I do on weekends to have
some fun.

The Dream involves 4 sets of identical twins, 2 gallons of Cool
Whip, 5 quarts of chocolate syrup, 2-1/4 pounds of strawberries,
satin sheets, a magnum of champagne, a trapeze, and a python.
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