[Elfsea] Snollygoster no more

[Wilkerson, Glen D]

That's not a sig line, that's a letter to Penthouse - and for the life of
me, I still haven't figured out what the python is for...

Alaric

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew G. Saroff [mailto:msaroff at fellspt.charm.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:43 PM
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org; brighthills at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Elfsea] Snollygoster no more


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. Check
http://www.pobox.com/~msaroff, including The Bad Hair Web Page Quis
custodiet ipsos custodes Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est.

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