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Re: So Wizard!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:04:04 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Eaton writes:
> And further for the record, I believe this actually WAS slang back a 'long'
> time ago... I seem to remember reading several books where characters
> said "That's wizard!" or something to that effect, indicating how
> cool/neat/awesome/etc something was. I THINK (I could easily be wrong) one
> place I saw this was in Lord_of_the_Flies, which was written in the early
> 1950's, so possibly it was a more common saying around then...
Another reference of note is Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None,
from 1939.
Dave!
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