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Subject:RE: Pet Peeves From:linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com To:cupton -at- syclone -dot- net Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:30:56 -0400
According to World Wide Words
(http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dog3.htm), a dog and pony show was
essentially a shoestring budget circus that had only dog and pony acts,
and they originated in the middle west.
It goes on to say that "It was in the 1950s that the term began to appear
in print as a metaphor for some event that was more pizzazz than
substance, like the tinsel and glitter of a circus ring."
This is the meaning I've always associated with it.
Lin Sims
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Carolyn Upton wrote on 03/13/2007 11:17:49 AM:
> D&PS in the 50s referred to shows put on in the border towns of Mexico.
I
> don't need to go into any more detail, do I? I'm always amazed when I
hear
> the term used in a business meeting or - horrors - on TV.
>
> Carolyn Upton
> (almost too old to remember)
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