Atdtda[4]: 99.16 The electrician's grapevine
Bryan Snyder
wilsonistrey at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 19:05:12 CST 2007
nice. awesome find. Going up on AtD wiki??
On 3/7/07, Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> While I thought at first that this was a simple joke with a '60s song
> title, it turns out to be more:
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> from an excellent site
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=g&p=9 (scroll down to 'grape')
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> "Grapevine "rumor source" is 1862, from U.S. Civil War slang for
> "telegraph wires"
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> Aptly chosen!
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