'Mad Dog

[kelber at mindspring.com]

My understanding of the origin of Mad Dog as a name for a cheap wine was that it derives from the acronym for a syrupy kosher brand of wine, Mogen Dovid.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

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>Monte,
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>Look what I found, that I had forgotten for sure, while looking around:
>A post of yours from Feb 15, 2007 on this list with another meaning to 
>"mad dog"!
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>Small bottles of cheap fortified wines are known on the street as "short
>dogs," "mickeys," "poneys," [sic] and "mad dogs."---Monte Davis
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>Yes, That Russell was not even close to deserving the phrase, even with this meaning
>is yes, yes, yes, why it was used, I agree....
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>Mark
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:11:42 PM
>Subject: RE: 'Mad Dog" Bertie Russell & Unitarianism
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>Mark sez:
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>> I am going to risk being way wrong in suggesting 
>> some reason(s) why TRP may have used the term "Mad Dog" 
>> w/r/t Bertrand Russell.  
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>All good. As champion of the obvious, I'll add that
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>1) a purely joke-y anachronistic reference to Noel Coward's 1932 song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" (namesake for a Joe Cocker album in 1971) would not be too weird from the author who in Mason & Dixon invented the 18th century idiom "simpleton silver" (chump change), and created a Hudson Valley Girl who sprinkles "as" where her descendants will sprinkle "like"....
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>2) for the kind of Krazy Kutup who would do that, your point -- that "BR wasn't even close to deserving the phrase" -- might appear to be be all the more reason for applying it.
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>As B4,
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>G.E. "Wild & Crazy" Moore
>Ludwig "Big Mouth" Wittgenstein
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