Little Green Footballs Dictionary

OK, folks, someone had to do it:

I’ve scoured through the first 60 comments on the “launch thread” at LGF, which contained many suggestions for the dictionary.

Those suggestions that were straightforward to implement, I just did ‘em. They are now in the dictionary.

To keep everyone abreast of what has been done and what hasn’t, I will list below all the changes that I completed.

Following this list, I have made another list that includes all the suggestions up through comment #60 from that thread that I HAVEN’T completed. That way, the editors can pore over the list and tackle any particular task that interests them.

As for the rest of the comments on that thread: hopefully, I (or someone) will get to them eventually!

OK, here we go: these are the tasks that I’ve now done.

Recent Suggestions Implemented by zombie:

Created a new entry and definition for “fauxtograph.” This is to be considered a “placeholder”; if anyone else has been working on “fauxtograph,” please add your info to the definition, or alter it as you see fit.

Created a new entry and definition for “Stan.”

Created a new entry and definition for “just poop.”

Created a listing and definition for “weirod,” along with a “first-use” citation.

Updated and corrected the definition of “globular clusters.”

Clarified the citations for “Kossack,” to indicate that the first reference listed did not refer to Daily Kos.

Suggestions from the “Launch Thread” that didn’t make the grade:

“MoveOn.Ogre => A Member of MoveOn.org.” I’ve never seen this used. If it has been, it’s too rare to be included.

Stuff that needs to be done:

Find the first known use of “fauxtography” on LGF (by kay1212?) and elsewhere; update the definition with the citation to the first occurrence.

We need to find the first appearance of “Stan,” as a typo in a comment by BabbaZee, and then add the “first usage” citation to the “Stan” definition.

We still haven’t discovered the undisputed first usage of the term L³. There are several claimants. The LGF search function does not work properly on my browser, so someone else will have to do it. I think song_and_dance_man is on the case.