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270 · Day and Gately

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Montesian

also the name of a lake in Wisconsin

Lenz

German for "springtime"

Goodwill

a charity that redistributes donated goods and clothing

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non sequiturs

From the Latin for "it does not follow," a non sequitur is a statement with no connection to what comes before or what follows it.

butter wouldn't melt

which is to say, with a certain, probably faked, coolness

macramé

a type of fabric-making done by knotting rather than knitting

Paul Harvey

Born Paul Harvey Aurandt, Paul Harvey (born 1918) is an American radio broadcaster known for his platitudes.

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nictitated

winking

Quaalude

a brand name of methaqualone

Malden

a northern suburb of Boston, about 7 miles north of the city

egregulous

not a real word

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ephebe

a young man between the ages of 18 and 20

redolent

smelling badly

main

here meaning "physical strength"

interdicted

prohibited

sally

a clever remark

mild sedatives

Quaaludes are more like a sledgehammer to the head than a "mild sedative."

reductia ad absurdum

a misstatement or misspelling of reductio ad absurdum

"Simply open wide for the spoon."

This is perhaps a reference to a line from William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch, regarding the time when one realizes "what is at the end of that long newspaper spoon."

"...Wasn't this the very horror the Madisonians were horrified of in 1791? Amendments I and IX? My Grievance is disallowed because my Petition for Redress is a priori interdicted by the inadvisability of all Petitioning?"

First things first: Day is referring to the First Amendment and Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

James Madison, the chief drafter of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, though he opposed in theory the latter, said of the Ninth Amendment: "It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [i.e., the Ninth Amendment itself]."

The idea was to limit the powers of Congress to block other rights and limits its powers to what Article One of the Constitution already gave it.

How this works with the First Amendment's guarantee of the right to petition the government for redress I don't know, because petitioning is not deemed inadvisable, although perhaps it had been. One idea is that by petitioning the government for redress, the government (and specifically Congress) may go beyond its prescribed powers, thus making petitioning inadvisable.

lapped

a reference to track and field, in which a runner is so far ahead of another runner on a circular court that he has "lapped" him, i.e., is now a lap ahead of him

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bunko artists

con artists

jonesing

an addict term for the desire for one's substance of choice

mokus

Loneliness or depression. Oddly, this term could not be found in a U.S. dictionary, but is referred to in the OED as "US slang."

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Guy That Didn't Even Use His First Name

a joke based on the fact that in recovery programs like AA, people do not use their last names

Spont-Dissem

Spontaneous Dissemination, i.e., live as opposed to pre-recorded

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f-term

i.e., "fag"

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Morris Code

a misstatement of Morse Code

XSive

excessive

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east of Atlantic City, NJ

which would be either in Europe on the Atlantic Ocean somewhere -- or nowhere

Borderline

suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder

organic-coke

an oxymoronic term, since cocaine is a chemical

Charlestown

a suburb to the north of Boston, right over the Charles River

100 grams

About 3.5 ounces. The street value of 100 grams of cocaine is enormous -- after cutting on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

D.E.A.

Drug Enforcement Agency

Military Police

Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was a Cuban-American actor and entertainer, best known to a generation of television viewers as the man who played the Joker on the television live-action series of Batman.

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Easter Island statue

see right

Prince Valiantish haircut

see right

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pince-nez

From the French for "pinch-nose," these are glasses without arms to go over the ears.

2F and 1M

2 females and 1 male

suppurating

oozing pus

Grand Mall epilepsy

Gately means grand mal.

(4)

Notice that after listing points (a), (b), and (c) about clichés, Gately moves on to (4) rather than (d).

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dun

grayish-brown

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Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996) was vice president of the U.S. under Richard Nixon until forced to resign after pleading no contest to charges of charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

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