Are "hold" and "holed" interchangeable? Fred Holmes At 11:36 AM 4/9/2008, John Settle wrote: >I do get a humorous lift from this thread. Reminds me of a Barbara >Stanwyck / Gary Cooper movie from 1941 "Ball of Fire" where she is a >mobsters moll hold up with a group of stereotypical, egghead >lexicographers working on a new version of an encyclopedia. She >convinces them to try to include current slang. One of the mobster >characters states he has to make a telephone call by saying "Gotta use >the Ameche" referring to Don Ameche's 1939 role in "The Life of >Alexander Graham Bell." (Same Studio.) Cue central casting stuffy >professor types falling all over themselves to document the usage. >(in this case Cue the central casting IT types...) I've never been able to >document that usage "in the wild." If it was in the vernacular, it life must >have been ephemeral in the extreme
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