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| 875.1 | Father of .. | HLFS00::STEENWINKEL | The Taming of the Screw | Mon Mar 04 1991 13:45 | 4 |
| I've heard a British reporter refer to SH as the 'Father of the Mother
of all battles'. Should this mean he is the 'Grandpa' of all battles? :-)
- Rik -
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| 875.2 | | TERZA::ZANE | War is Hell. -- Sherman | Mon Mar 04 1991 16:23 | 3 |
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Your mother is a ...
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| 875.3 | Big? It was a Mother! | REEF::LAMBKE | Rick | Mon Mar 04 1991 17:54 | 3 |
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Mother Lode ...
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| 875.4 | to be replaced by "the great-grand-daddy of all ..." | ENABLE::GLANTZ | DECtp: The Mother of all TP Monitors | Mon Mar 04 1991 18:53 | 1 |
| We here in TP engineering think it'll fade quickly.
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| 875.5 | | TERZA::ZANE | War is Hell. -- Sherman | Mon Mar 04 1991 19:00 | 4 |
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It will go the way of all the other current Iraqi jokes.
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| 875.6 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Tue Mar 05 1991 01:29 | 8 |
| > SH seems to have unintentionally introduced into English the phrase,
> "mother of" as either a superlative or the progenitor.
Superlative. However, he did not introduce it; he only made it
popular. The same expression is used in other countries as well,
sometimes in English when the speaker is moderately fluent in
English. The original "introducer" (surely untraceable) didn't
make it popular in English because s/he didn't agress Kuwait.
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| 875.7 | | MAST::FITZPATRICK | Juuuust a bit outside. | Tue Mar 05 1991 20:09 | 8 |
| Heard on the radio this morning:
The police in Fayetteville NC have been asked to be lenient with
any returning soldiers who may get intoxicated. After 7 months of
enforced sobreity, the soldiers plan on throwing "the mother of all
parties."
-Tom
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| 875.8 | The great wordsmith? | MARVIN::KNOWLES | Domimina nustio illumea | Wed Mar 06 1991 14:37 | 7 |
| Don't credit him (or more probably a translator trotting out the usual
English version of a well-worn idiom in whatever language SH speaks).
`Mother and father of ...', in the meaning `biggest imaginable', has
been current for ages; so I'd be surprised if the expression SH used
had not been current just as long in that language.
b
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| 875.9 | Wordsmithing | SMURF::CALIPH::binder | Simplicitas gratia simplicitatis | Wed Mar 06 1991 16:09 | 5 |
| I doubt whether SH, who speaks Arabic, created "mother of all battles"
any more than Bush created "Thousand points of light." That's what
these biggies have speechwriters for.
-d
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| 875.10 | Biiiiig Meteor | KEATNG::KEATING | | Wed Mar 06 1991 19:39 | 4 |
| Also heard on the radio this morning:
A spokesperson for the such-and-such observatory claims that the
UFO sighting was evidently the "mother of all meteors".
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| 875.11 | the phrase "mother of" | ODIXIE::LAMBKE | Rick Lambke @FLA dtn 392-2220 | Tue Mar 19 1991 20:19 | 9 |
| I saw in the paper a headline, "police are victorious".
A suburban school was overrun by children aged 11-17 playing "war
games" on Saturday. Police were called, and spent many hours chasing
the children out of hiding. Finally, the children "surrendered".
Their punishment?
They were sent home to face "the battle of all mothers".
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