Mike Vilano

Hi everyone. Any history buffs out there? Here is one for ya.
Let me know where you find this info.

What President coined the phrase "lobbyist" to describe the people who used
to gather at the Willard Hotel lobby to approach him on their individual
causes because they knew he liked to enjoy a brandy and a cigar there after
a long days work?

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<<Hi everyone. Any history buffs out there? Here is one for ya.
Let me know where you find this info.

<<What President coined the phrase "lobbyist" to describe the people who used
to gather at the Willard Hotel lobby to approach him on their individual
causes because they knew he liked to enjoy a brandy and a cigar there after
a long days work?>>


I found it in a Biblical Word Studies lesson by going to Google and entering

lobbyist president hotel brandy cigar

The first listing was this:

http://www.logicteacher.com/family/bws/bws-class09-notes.htm


Here's the quote I found:
=

III. This has nothing to do with our lesson today, but it does have
something to do with word meanings and origins. Can anyone tell me where the
term 'lobbyist' came from? When Ulysses Grant was President, he would often
walk or ride the couple of blocks from the White House to the Willard Hotel,
and sit in the lobby of the Willard smoking a cigar and drinking brandy. Once
people learned of this habit, some people who wanted political favors, or to
try to convince Grant to do something they wanted done, would come over to
the hotel when he was there and talk to him in the lobby of the Willard
Hotel. He started calling such people lobbyists.=


There were lots of other pages listed which seemed to have similar
information.

Sandra

Mike Vilano

that was great!
NIKKI
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>Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:39:58 EDT
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><<Hi everyone. Any history buffs out there? Here is one for ya.
>Let me know where you find this info.
>
><<What President coined the phrase "lobbyist" to describe the people who
>used
>to gather at the Willard Hotel lobby to approach him on their individual
>causes because they knew he liked to enjoy a brandy and a cigar there after
>a long days work?>>
>
>
>I found it in a Biblical Word Studies lesson by going to Google and
>entering
>
>lobbyist president hotel brandy cigar
>
>The first listing was this:
>
>http://www.logicteacher.com/family/bws/bws-class09-notes.htm
>
>
>Here's the quote I found:
>=
>
>III. This has nothing to do with our lesson today, but it does have
>something to do with word meanings and origins. Can anyone tell me where
>the
>term 'lobbyist' came from? When Ulysses Grant was President, he would often
>walk or ride the couple of blocks from the White House to the Willard
>Hotel,
>and sit in the lobby of the Willard smoking a cigar and drinking brandy.
>Once
>people learned of this habit, some people who wanted political favors, or
>to
>try to convince Grant to do something they wanted done, would come over to
>the hotel when he was there and talk to him in the lobby of the Willard
>Hotel. He started calling such people lobbyists.=
>
>
>There were lots of other pages listed which seemed to have similar
>information.
>
>Sandra






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"According to the dictionary, lobbyists are people who try to influence the
voting of legislators or to procure the passage of a bill. According to
folklore, the term lobbying goes back to the days of President Grant. He
would walk from the White House to the Willard Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue
in Washington, D.C. President Grant would sit in the lobby and citizens
would come and talk to him and ask him to do things. Thus, the term lobbyist
was coined. "

Google can make a genius out of almost anyone.....
http://www.clickonmycareer.com/lobbyist.asp

Now who coined the term "the buck stops here"?

Ren

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In a message dated 5/29/02 12:28:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
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>
> What President coined the phrase "lobbyist" to describe the people who used
> to gather at the Willard Hotel lobby to approach him on their individual
> causes because they knew he liked to enjoy a brandy and a cigar there after
> a long days work?
>

It was Grant.
~Nancy


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In a message dated 5/29/02 1:39:58 PM, starsuncloud@... writes:

<< Now who coined the term "the buck stops here"? >>

The animators on Bambi?

Michael D. Johnson

My 7 year old ask me this question?

What do you guys think?

Michael

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Banana spiders in the Philippines are pretty big! But I don't know if they
are the biggest.
~Nancy


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<< Banana spiders in the Philippines are pretty big! But I don't know if they
are the biggest. >>

The biggest spider in the world is probably on Google.

Go to google.com, enter biggest spider in the world
and see what comes up. Check some websites, learn ten things you didn't even
know you didn't know, and also get the answer to your question!

Sandra

Michael D. Johnson

My son says the answer is:

On the World Wide Web....:-)

Best Wishes,

Michael

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<<
Banana spiders in the Philippines are pretty big! But I don't know if they
are the biggest. >>

We have banana spiders here. Although the true name is some Orb
spider...Golden Orb or something? Anyway, I doubt they're the same as the
Philippines version.
I imagine it's something in the Amazon rainforests, they grow everything
extra large down there.
I know there is a type of tarantula that is the size of dinner plates and can
eat baby monkeys.
Ren

Lisa Krause

The biggest spiders in the world live in my basement.
If anyone wants documented proof of this, I'll be
happy to trap a few and send them out to you for
proper measurement.

...Anyone? Bueller?

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In a message dated 5/29/02 11:09:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> Banana spiders in the Philippines are pretty big! But I don't know if they
> are the biggest. >>
>
> We have banana spiders here. Although the true name is some Orb
> spider...Golden Orb or something? Anyway, I doubt they're the same as the
> Philippines version.
> I imagine it's something in the Amazon rainforests, they grow everything
> extra large down there.
> I know there is a type of tarantula that is the size of dinner plates and
> can
> eat baby monkeys.
> Ren

Are you in Florida? Darin says sometimes the weird versions of spiders
sometimes hitch rides on produce coming from the jungles and arrive like
illegal aliens off the boats!

I asked my husband about this, since he was the one (stationed in the
Marines) in the Philippines and he said that the so called banana spiders
there really aren't banana spiders (just called that). They are some sort of
tarantula. They are elongated in shape and have a golden colored abdomen.
They weave these huge webs that are very strong, and if a person walks into
one he would need help extracting himself due to the fact that the strength
of the web and the stickiness makes it hard to get out of.
Then he told me about these little snakes that live in the jungle up in trees
there. They hang down and *catch* rides on the guys packs as the guys pass
under them. The problem with this is they call the creatures two-step snakes.
When I asked why that was a problem, Darin said if the snake decides he
doesn't like the ride and bites you, two-steps and you are dead!
I think I will be staying out of the jungle for now!
~Nancy~ off to bed with the heebie-jeebies!


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In a message dated 5/30/02 12:24:16 AM, Dnowens@... writes:

<< They weave these huge webs that are very strong, and if a person walks
into
one he would need help extracting himself due to the fact that the strength
of the web and the stickiness makes it hard to get out of. >>

I saw that in a Tarzan movie.
They were in the desert, in the Sahara, and RIGHT THERE, like a line in the
sand, the jungle started, and Jane went into the jungle and she was totally
stuck in a spider web. No wait. Maybe Jane was in the man-eating plant
which grabbed her up to the shoulders in half a second, and Tarzan was stuck
in the Phillipino spider web.

Wow. Geography is so interesting. I wonder in which part of Mexico they
filmed that?

(No, don't tell me, I know. Tarzan didn't move to Mexico for filming until
the 70's TV show, and before that they were in some building in California.)

The biggest spider I ever saw was a wolf spider about a foot across (legs)
with a body about five inches across. He was all hairy like a tarantula, and
kind of orangish or some creepy color. I was driving my van near Placitas,
New Mexico, on a dirt road, and had passed over him, not sure what I had
seen, parked and walked back. He was fine, still moving across the road.
We let him go, because I was sure if we had even poked at him he could have
emitted a kind of emergency signal and his thousands of speedy and nearby
relatives would have swarmed over us and eaten us, because I saw this Tarzan
movie one time, and so although I've learned a lot from Tarzan movies, I do
know that the two elephants at the Rio Grande Zoo will NOT run to Placitas if
I yell.

When there are spiders at my house someone yells for me. Even my husband
hates spiders and will call me if he sees one. I don't know all their names,
but I know if they're harmless window spiders who don't make too much web and
so are worth leaving alone (little jumping spiders who will eat flies), or
garden spiders who would rather be outside, or black widows who are being
sent to a quick reincarnation or eternal darkness.

I should get a field guide to spiders.

Sandra

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> When there are spiders at my house someone yells for me. Even my husband
> hates spiders and will call me if he sees one. I don't know all their
> names,
> but I know if they're harmless window spiders who don't make too much web
> and
> so are worth leaving alone (little jumping spiders who will eat flies), or
> garden spiders who would rather be outside, or black widows who are being
> sent to a quick reincarnation or eternal darkness.
>
> I should get a field guide to spiders.
>
> Sandra
>

Our "little" jumping spiders are either wolf spiders (small) or brown
recluses, so I kill all jumping spiders! Most others I leave alone. We have
beautiful garden spiders, they have a large green abdomen with bright yellow
designs, and weave large webs that are just beautiful early in the morning
covered in dew.
~Nancy


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In a message dated 5/30/02 9:19:24 AM, Dnowens@... writes:

<< and weave large webs that are just beautiful early in the morning
covered in dew. >>

..."dew"...
(Getting a dictionary...)


We're having the worst drought here!! They might cut off irrigation; that's
bad. I've never seen that done in my whole life, and I'm OLD!

And Albuquerque might have to start processing river water for city water
instead of using mountain/reservoir/underground water this year.

And other places are wasting water making spider webs pretty. <g>

Sandra

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In a message dated 5/30/02 10:29:01 AM Central Daylight Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:


> ..."dew"...
> (Getting a dictionary...)

LOL you scared me Sandra! I thought *geeze! I can't even spell dew right!*
Sorry about your drought! I hope it doesn't come to having to process the
river water! That is the way our water comes to us, and we have NASTY water!
It is chock full of minerals and chlorine and... just tastes gross. When we
make ice, there is a milky white area at the bottom of the cube, yet we get
all this literature with our bills that tell us how healthy our drinking
water is. The advertising guys who think up all this cr@p must get paid
bookoo bucks!


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