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POPSJulie Greenwald: "Not A Lot of People Knew About Rap in 1992" In the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Pink Magazine: How did a nice elementary school teacher like Julie Greenwald become one of the biggest promoters of rap? Timing, as they say, is everything. After a brief stint teaching in New Orleans, she landed a summer job as an assistant at Def Jam Records in 1992. "Not many people knew about rap back then" she says.
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POPSSouth Carolina, Bringing ignorance to a college near you! Three times as much funding for religious schools and supporting the idea of Creationism to supplant evolution. Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) points out other ignorances this level of funding generates at http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/08/06/time-to-saw-south-carolina-off-from-the-us-and-set-it-free/#comments
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POPSPortmanteau Language -- Speech Idiosyncracies Entertaining article about speech foibles. I recall my own wife's talent for coming up with appropriate but made-up words, on the spot. As a graphic artist, I remember her remarking at work that a graphic clip needed to be "smallerized". When we were assembling furniture from an Ikea-like store, she wondered why the "stickoutums" at the corners weren't covered to prevent bumping injuries. --- Entertaining site, relating to word creation, from a recent Clipmark (sorry, don't have the Clipper's name at hand): Verbotomy .
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