Oct. 6th, 2007

madbaker: (letter-man)
The service was good. The gathering after was very good.

One of my treasured memories of Teresa:
The Crosston list was talking about filibusters. Teresa posted the etymology of the word: that when a politician took too long speaking, they would throw hard nuts at him - hence, keeping the floor indefinitely was a "filbert-buster".

I promptly looked it up in the OED, where it said no such thing. I responded to Teresa:
You are wrong wrong wrong, the word means nothing of the sort. back-space-delete
That's interesting, I had not heard that. Here is what the OED says: (blah)

She had made the whole thing up, of course, and was tickled that I checked and called her on it.

Farewell, Teresa. We'll miss you.

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