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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 980.1 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Tue Jun 30 1992 13:24 | 4 |
| It's from "Paint your Wagon", and I've never found
any reference either. Nor for Tess, nor for Joe.
twe
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| 980.2 | | NABETH::alan | And then there were none... | Tue Jun 30 1992 18:17 | 2 |
| The only ones I've found recently are a Mt. Mariah in
Indiana and a person whose first name is Mariah.
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| 980.3 | | POWDML::SATOW | | Wed Jul 01 1992 06:16 | 8 |
| Most references to "Mariah" that I've heard are associated with death or
bad luck. I've heard the term "black Mariah" used to refer to the queen of
spades in a standard deck of cards (usually in the game "hearts," in which the
queen of spades is a bad card). There is something associated with a
funeral called "Black Maria." I believe that one of the collections of
Charles Addams cartoons was called "Black Mariah."
Clay
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| 980.4 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Wed Jul 01 1992 06:17 | 7 |
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And of course there's the famous "Black Maria" (no 'h') meaning a
patrol or paddy wagon. I've got no idea of the etymology for this,
either, but it is capitalized in the dictionary.
JP
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| 980.5 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Wed Jul 01 1992 06:22 | 9 |
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Notes collision in .3 and .4 -- Black Maria would certainly make more
sense as a funeral wagon, but my (admittedly brain-damaged) dictionary
makes no mention of that.
I've heard the spade queen called lots of things during a game of
hearts, but never that...
JP
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| 980.6 | | CALS::THACKERAY | | Wed Jul 01 1992 06:35 | 5 |
| In England, a Black Mariah (with the "h", I think) is a prison
transport van, most often utilised for carting away persons of an
ungrammatical nature.
Ray
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| 980.7 | | ESGWST::RDAVIS | Carp per diem | Wed Jul 01 1992 09:05 | 5 |
| Raymond Chandler wrote of a Southwestern pheenom known as a "red wind".
Maybe they just had trouble coming up with music for "They call the
wind 'Red'"?
Ray
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| 980.8 | | SSDEVO::EGGERS | Anybody can fly with an engine. | Wed Jul 01 1992 10:34 | 3 |
| I'd always assumed the "wind Mariah" was a chinook, although I don't
think the song has much justification for my assumption. Isn't a "red
wind" one that blows red dust?
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| 980.9 | To the memory of Mr. Stan Phillips | ESGWST::RDAVIS | Carp per diem | Wed Jul 01 1992 15:35 | 7 |
| Not precisely. A "red wind" is one of those hot dry Santa Anas that
come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your
nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party
ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife
and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get
a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
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| 980.10 | as I recall... | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Thu Jul 02 1992 04:16 | 13 |
| G'day,
The paddy wagon or Black Maria was a black, closed van used for carting
prisoners about - had a ride in one too, but that's another story ;-)
Named after some woman who regularly needed transportation on saturday
nights in London around the early 1900s - usually for being D & D...
djw
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| 980.11 | | HOTWTR::ANDERSON_MI | Dwell in possibility | Thu Jul 09 1992 12:51 | 3 |
| re: .9
Or Joan Didion, who isn't dead.
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