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Re: Shinola
From:
"Donald B. White" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
BP - "Shinola Heretics United"
Date:
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:06:26 -0500
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The expression in question dates back to the 1920s and always was used to
mean that the person referred to was very ignorant. The other 'meanings'
are later derivations used by people ignorant of the original meaning or
the phrase's origins. 

/dw

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