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Subject: Re: Nosebleed seats!
Date sent: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:19:00 PST
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>From: Sopran-at-aol.com
>Everyone else's explanation is so genteel!
>
>I was under the impression that this term originated in the sports world.
>Those in the cheaper seats, which are also higher up, are more likely be
>rowdy, get into a fistfight, and end up with a nosebleed.
>
>The fact that I have 6 brothers might explain something...
>
>Judy ;-)

Funny, I've never heard the 700 level at Veterans Stadium called the
"nosebleed seats." (Fellow Fluffyans will know what I mean.)

The $5 amphitheater rush seats at the Philadelphia Orchestra are usually
termed "the peanut gallery."


Elizabeth Finkler
mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com

Consider the singular wisdom learned from animated sages like Bugs Bunny.
The irrepressible, Oscar-winning rabbit and his cartoon cohorts have taught
millions of American children precisely the sort of powerful, subversive
truths from which adults try to shield them: that smart-alecks have more
fun; that mocking authority is often the right thing to do; that tortoises
beat hares (especially when tortoises cheat); that the world is often a
cruel and desperate place that would just as soon drop an anvil on your head
as give you a hand up; and, most important of all, that a sense of humor and
resilience is the only way to make it through the years to come.
---Nick Gillespie


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