>Either showing great ingenuity, or nicking it from Spider Robinson,
>who used the term in this manner in a Callahan's Bar story from
>about 25-30 years ago. I had always presumed it was a direct life
>from Robinson, myself.

...well. The term's been running around my brain as a dangling pointer, and only NOW has it gotten the references put back together. (It was a 'I knew I heard that somewhere, but where, god, where' for years-n-years.)

Let the story be told.

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