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Away From the Red Eyes of the Crowd

By pontiff on July 6, 2008.

Red Eye:

  • A drink made from beer and tomato juice, drunk by Canadians
  • A kind of cicada.
  • Tomato ketchup. Or is it catsup?
  • A European fish, the rudd, Leuciscus erythrophthalmus. I was once a rudd, of a different kind.
  • What Dave will be doing tonight to get to the East coast. BINGO! From the OED:

    White House Diary 31 Mar. (1970) 642 Lynda was coming in on 'the red-eye special' from California, about 7 A.M., having kissed Chuck good-by at Camp Pendleton last night as he departed for Vietnam

    Bonus points if you can guess who Lynda is. Double bonus if you can explain where the title of this post comes from.

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No guessing. Lynda is Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, the eldest of LBJ's daughters. And Chuck is Charles Robb, Lynda's husband.

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Please credit my account with the bonus points also . . .or did we need to be first to claim them..??

As for the double bonus ...hmmm.

...tom...

P.S. By the way, that 'rudd of a different kind' sure looks exciting from that linked page you left. ...:minism:...

...tom...
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Far from the madding crowd?