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Re: Shinola
From:
Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
BP - "Shinola Heretics United"
Date:
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:32:48 EST
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In a message dated 11/24/99 9:26:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< The expression in question [THE LONG OR THE SHORT VERSION?] dates back to
the 1920s and always was used to mean that the person referred to was very
ignorant [THAT MUCH WE COULD FIGURE OUT]. The other 'meanings' [WHAT OTHER
MEANINGS?] are later derivations used by people ignorant of the original
meaning or the phrase's origins [WHICH ORIGINS? SHOE POLISH OR HAIR GUNK?].
  >>
RALPH [RECEIVED VALENTINES IN GRADE SCHOOL ADDRESSED TO RALPF]

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