European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Columns today s crossword for $10,000, you get seconds by Art Buchwald when i make a mistake i make a thus spoke sen. Lloyd bunt san. The mistake he Texas senator is talking about was inviting lobbyists to have breakfast with him once a month for j 10,000 Toast and Marma Lade included. The donor would not Only get 10 cat with the senator but he would be asked advice on Trade taxation and anything else the lobbyist wished to bring up. It sounded like one whale of a Deal. But when it leaked out what bunt san was charging for breakfast the senator was forced to close Down his diner. I Don t want anyone to get the impression thai by Nisan is the Only one Selling Access to Power brokers who prowl the Hilt. The Opportunity of gelling close to your senator for a Price has become Washington s biggest business. I was having with sen. Logic at he Madison hotel the other morning. Since logic is a Junior senator it Only Cost me j6.000. The senator was a gracious Frost. Do you want some More corned beef hash he asked. No this is Fine 1 assured him. You can have All the grits you want he old me. Say whal they will. Logic never stints on his meals for wheels program. Would you like to know How i la vote am i permitted your breakfast entitles you to three questions or three English muffins whichever comes can i ask what you intend to do with All the Money you re raising from lobbyists lobbyists need love Loo. But just because i listen to their stones does t mean i m obligated 10 vote in their favor though i must say most of a him make excellent arguments for their Side. Have a m do columnists have any legislative problems t can help Wight i can t speak for George will but i Don t have is talk he japanese and South koreans arc hint ing of dumping a lot of cheap foreign columns on the United Stales but i m Noi worried. When it comes to columns we american columnists can hold our. Two men passed by the table and one said hello senator. How goes it Pogie Wettl red and mumbled i Don t believe in. Liv or heats refused to give to my political action committee and he now has the nerve to walk by and say hello to if he does t contribute he has no right to pretend he knows you of course he does t. If he can say hello to me for free Why should other lobbyists pay for the Privily Ger this is whal i think i said the Guy with him is a cd incl and liver heels is trying to impress him. It makes me mad when he gets a free Pogie said Don t worry about it. Just because some one says hello 10 me does t mean he owns me. Here put this Maple syrup on your French Toast and you la know Why 1 run the Best political breakfast club in you really care about your constituents appetites Don t you Pogie said "1 Call them As i Sec them. But if you Sayi m wrong and you want to add a few Bucks to my elec Tion Kilty 111 be glad to look at in again on instant re a prop Sims & Bon prop Sims by William Safire a Mata tropism is a word or phrase thai is amusingly off the Mark. For example a recent pamphlet circulated by the department of health and human serv ices dealt with Ina Lionts Bui stated that Hospital insurance covers impatient Hospital input incl is a Retro nym based on outpatient used to be a person receiving treatment in a Hospital was merely a patient and Only the hatches faced head nurse was impatient the eponymous ism was formed from mrs. Malaprop a character in a 1775 play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan who used re pretend for apprehend and Ora Cular for Vernac Utor. Today the word applies to any goofy linguistic mistake like he unintentional irreverence in the simile drunk As the Sheridan formed the name from malaprops Origi Nally meaning Inopportune the French formed the irm from mat badly a to propos. The this idea is expressed in English As inappropriate the bureaucrat s All purpose excuse for not doing anything sorry it s not our policy to comment on Why it would be the English version of Mal a proposes intended to convey the illusion of wrong but inappropriate is rooted in the More manipulative not suited to the purpose which brings us to Bona tropism a coinage touted in this space for the past few years to describe Happy mistakes words or phrases that Are seemingly off the Mark but unintentionally hit he Mark right on the Button. For example a disc jockey in los Angeles named april Whitney who posed seductively in Playboy mag Azine reported her reaction to a subsequent invitation to Fly to Dallas i d be worried that i d get off the plane and never be seen from at first glance her comment appears to be a gambling of heard from again but the visual element of the Story leads do Shannon of the los Angeles times to suggest mrs. Whitney May be the Long sought replacement for Sam Goldwyn somebody who gets it wrong but with just a fraction of something that sounds , the Hollywood producer was famed for the mistakes created for him by the press agent Lynn Famoly such As a verbal contract in t Worth the paper it s written on and include me out in later years Goldwyn decided he wanted a More statesmanlike image fired his press agent and claimed he never said any of those funny things. That left a void who would become or. Bon prop the person who would be a natural source for the attribution of such constructions Casey Stengel the baseball manager filled that role for a Lime he is usually cited As the source of the to mire risk you could look it up Walt Kelly s cartoon charac Ter Pogo was heavily quoted for we have met the enemy and he is us usually by self Flage Laling foreign affairs writers bul this was his Only major contribution to the have Long been searching for the origin of the opera Ain t Over till the fat lady coach Dick Motta of the nabs Chicago bulls who popularized the phrase in 1978. Has been noted Here As a possible Coiner but Daniel s. Knight of Philadelphia who styles himself spokesman for the fat lady sings society cites the concise Oxford dictionary of prov Erzsi in 1975, Ralph Carpenter information director of Texas tech Lold a contingent of sportswriters in the Austin press Box thai the Rodeo Ain t Over till the Bull riders Dan Cook a sports editor for the san Antonio express news responded with the opera Ain t Over till the fat lady in searching for the origin of his Gem i come across the simpler and even More frequently cited ii Ain l Over till it s Over which i presume is a shorten ing and philosophic Extension of the adage the Ball game in t Over until the last Man is baseball s Yogi Berra actually say that or was it a concoction of some Anonymous Alln Buter reached at his Montclair nj., Home Berra acknowledges the coinage yen t said that it was during a Pennant race for then a Yak tit Tel kit by vow fat to thifeplt.xtv.1t ftps fact Smeu Enereo Attar mutism. 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