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Matti Lamprhey
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:52 pm
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"Robert Lieblich" <robert.lieblich@verizon.net> wrote...
| Quote: | meirman wrote:
*Pace* what others have said, I doubt the origin of the term was
What does Pace mean? Ignore, peace, a potch ??
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary>. Note that the pronunciation
has two syllables, not that I've ever heard it spoken.
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Note also that it's being misused here: it should have been "*Pace* the
others who have commented on this matter..."
Matti
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John Dean
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:28 pm
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
| Quote: | On 09 Sep 2005, John Dean wrote
Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
On 08 Sep 2005, John Dean wrote
re: peanut gallery
*Pace* what others have said, I doubt the origin of the term was
to do with people throwing peanuts. I would suspect it reflects
the idea that these were the cheapest seats (BrE "the gods")
where people might be expected to take the cheapest snacks. In
the posh seats, theatre goers would have their bonbons, comfits
and crystallised fruits. In the cheap gallery, a bag of nuts.
Pure surmise: could it not be that from the stage -- with the
lights up, of course -- all one could make ouit of the gallery
was row of tiny indistinguishable faces that looked like the
peanuts they were eating?
Funnily enough, no. I have stood on a stage in a professional
theatre and it is surprising how much detail you can make out of
the audience, even in the top gallery and at the back of stalls.
And even, surprisingly enough, when the houselights are down.
But, yes, it was pure surmise.
Sorry -- I meant that *my* idea was pure surmise; it wasn't a comment
on your explanation. (Yours sounded much more likely than mine.)
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Ah, but, mine was surmise before *yours* was surmise so I surmise I
surmised first ...
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Andrew Bull
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| Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:50 am
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"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipson@ttrryytteell.com> wrote in message
news:7GDTe.1114$5I2.3860@newscontent-01.sprint.ca...
| Quote: | The OP question might be answered by the date when the
cheapest seats in US theatres (reserved for black patrons in
the US South) came to be called the "peanut gallery." This
may have been the vehicle through which "peanuts"
became the general appelation for anything small or trivial
(cf. Charles Schulz's newspaper strip in the early 1950s,
originally entitled Little People.)
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"Li'l Folks", to be precise: the name "Peanuts" was derived by Bill Anderson
(and imposed upon Schulz) from the Peanut Gallery in Howdy Doody which
meirman mentions elsewhere in the thread.
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Shaun aRe
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:51 pm
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<raghu_madras@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | What is the origin of the expression "peanuts" to refer to something
insignificant?
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If you want monkeys for staff, pay peanuts.
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Pat Durkin
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| Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:20 pm
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"Shaun aRe" <shaun_are@zenlunatics.co.uk> wrote in message
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raghu_madras@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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What is the origin of the expression "peanuts" to refer to something
insignificant?
If you want monkeys for staff, pay peanuts.
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Shaun aRe
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| Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:21 pm
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"Pat Durkin" <durkinpa@nothome.com> wrote in message
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"Shaun aRe" <shaun_are@zenlunatics.co.uk> wrote in message
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raghu_madras@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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What is the origin of the expression "peanuts" to refer to something
insignificant?
If you want monkeys for staff, pay peanuts.
I think you're bananas!
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That wasn't thinking, that was delusion! I'm a man.
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