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Thread #11643   Message #3324123
Posted By: Charley Noble
17-Mar-12 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling, Speaks)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling, Speaks)
It is intriguing the half-life of slang words. "Boycott" has endured through the ages. "Watergate" and all the other "gates" has been persistent but will probably fade away. I hadn't run across "Panama-ed" but it certainly would have had some bite during the early 1900s.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble