post-service thoughts
Oct. 6th, 2007 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madbakerThe 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.
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:
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.
