Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:44:29 -0500
From: Elizabeth/Walter Stark <puppetstark-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: PUPT: use of word "puppeteer"


Maybee it's a gen. x thing, though I don't qualify, or perhaps I just
listen to the wrong radio station or go to the wrong movies.           At
01:28 PM 1/18/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Help..
>Is this deja vu or another "senior" moment ?
>I thought I was kidnapped and riding on the high school bus again..
>
>Annie ....*(rot)
>*Retired old teacher
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>>I don't understand this at all.
>>
>>On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:37:29 -0500 Elizabeth/Walter Stark
>><puppetstark-AT-mindspring.com> writes:
>>> Alright, lets keep it clean! There is no need to go there, besides,
>>> what
>>> does slang about oral sex have to do with the topic unless you are
>>> implying
>>> by inferance that all puppeteers are tailgunners. I do not meen to
>>> slander
>>> any group, but what's the point!                 Walter      At
>>> 04:49 PM
>>> 1/18/2000 +1300, you wrote:
>>> >Mary R Harrison wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Sometime in the fairly recent past, someone told me that the word
>>> >> "puppeteer" is a recent word.  I think that they quoted
>>> McPharlin's book,
>>> >> but I can't find the reference.  Anyone have any insight into
>>> this?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Lovely Merriam-Webster says:
>>> >
>>> >Main Entry: puppeteer
>>> >Pronunciation: "p&-p&-'tir
>>> >Function: noun
>>> >Date: circa 1923
>>> >: one who manipulates puppets
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> And
>>> >> what were we called before that word was coined?
>>> >
>>> >Tea-baggers  ?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >:)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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>>Mary Robinette Harrison
>>Other Hand Productions
>>maryrh-AT-juno.com
>>http://www.otherhandproductions.com
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