Former neuroscience researcher. Sometimes word sleuth. Modern-folklore enthusiast. No clue how that happened. #BlackLivesMatter #TarHeel
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16 May 2022
Something new-ish by me about antebellum uses of “tar heel” and how the epithet may have become linked to North Carolinians by ca. 1860.
In short, "tar heel" was used for the marginalized poor across the South before the Civil War.
btaylorblake.com/2022/04/29/… #TarHeels #GDTBATH
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UNC is in the College World Series Finals.
"That's what we came here to do. We didn't come here to enjoy the visit. We came here to win a natty." - Owen Hull
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𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗔 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗕𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘 '𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 😤
#GoHeels x @wellsfargo
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That’s my Senator!
Jun 4
June or not, North Carolinians should be proud of who they are.
Our neighbors — no matter who they love — deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Happy Pride!
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Jun 3
If anyone is in Austin, Texas and would like to do me a favor, go to the Texas State Library and read Henry Clay Gray's THE MEDDLER newspaper (1916-1918; about 100 pages). I believe that he either coined #Juneteenth, or knows who did. 1/
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Jun 1
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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May 25
“Be kind to people. Not because they’re nice, but because you are” (@chaaaarmaineder, 2012). Credited to Stephen Colbert this week, but it's not his. A thread. #quotes #misquotes 1/
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May 17
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May 14
go back to the drawing board | phrase | to start over
This phrase comes from this March 1941 "New Yorker" cartoon by Peter Arno.
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ALT 1941 "New Yorker" cartoon with a crashed plane and the designer walking away saying "Well, back to the old drawing board."
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May 13
ALERT: NAACP adds a *federal* civil lawsuit to its challenge of new Tennessee redistricting
Group seeks court injunction to halt new map, arguing new district lines are "enacted w/ an impermissible discriminatory purpose on the basis of race in violation of the 14th Amendment"
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Ok Trump has gone too far now
May 11
I am so excited to share the official rendering of Trump Tower Tbilisi.
With a prime location, in the heart of Tbilisi, this tower will quickly become a landmark as the tallest building in Georgia. This marks our first project in the region and we are so excited to bring it to life!
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May 8
How to troll a tyrant.
Ukrainian President Zelensky has issued an official decree allowing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade.
The decree sets out a cease-fire zone covering Red Square in Moscow.
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May 8
@GAofNYC I have told the GANYC president and others about the new research on the term "86," and that it definitely DOES NOT come from Chumley's. Many GANYC guides have this wrong. Your Education Committee blocked me as spam! 1/
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May 6
An early "Big Apple" cite, from the New Orleans Item (newly digitized) in November 1921. #NYC #BigApple cc @EsnpcB @bgzimmer @btaylorblake
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The most surprising thing here is that "hot dog" is still referred to as slang, 30 years after its first appearance.
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May 3
Youth slang lexicon in Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1925). No "eighty-six" here, but take a look.
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May 2
On this day in 1876 Chicago’s Ross Barnes hits the first @MLB homer, off Cherokee Fisher at Cincinnati. (Yes, the Chicago club wore fezzes, with differing stripes marking the different positions.)
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May 2
"Eighty-six" or "86" in a 1920 article from Topeka, KS. I see this is also OED's earliest. This knocks out NYC's Chumley's & Empire State Building theories. A new thread. cc @NetsDaily @btaylorblake @EsnpcB 1/
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May 1
Comey's "8647" is in the news. Here is "86" in soda jerker slang, from Pittsburgh, in 1929, our new earliest cite for the expression. A thread. cc @NetsDaily @bgzimmer @btaylorblake @EsnpcB @jessesheidlower 1/
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