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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/13/06 07:07
Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article <pan.2006.01.13.03.53.16.709330@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Summary: do-re-mi (with *some* kind of spelling) is slang for "money",
>> albeit that might be spelled dough-re-mi since it's related to the
>> shorter slang "dough" for "money". I don't know how long "bread" for
>> "money" has been around, but IIRC it got popular/mainstream in the late
>> 1960s; I think it may have been an outgrowth of "dough", which has been
>> around for a long time.
>
> Thanks for the clarification! I'm pretty sure I confused 'My Favorite
> Martian' and some others from elsewhere. Nevertheless, we all toil for the
> dorayme [sic].
Local Dough Trivia (USan reference): And I shot one season of the game
show Tic-Tac-Dough, with Wink Mardindale. :)
USan Game Show Trivia: Wink is one of only two game show hosts (new
MTV-type programming perhaps excluded) to have been performing in a band
when it placed a tune on the Top 40.
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