Near the end of his *Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds* (1851), Charles Mackay discusses various catch phrases
briefly popular in mid-19th-century London. One of them, he observes,
"like a mushroom, seems to have sprung up in the night, or, like a frog in
Cheapside, to have come down in a sudden shower. One day it was unheard,
unknown, uninvented; the next it pervaded London."
Was "like a frog in Cheapside" (or something similar) a catch phrase
itself, or did Mackay come up with the simile on his own?
And to what event or events does it refer?
I didn't find anything relevant in Partridge's *A Dictionary of Catch
Phrases.*
bc
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No, hits=-7.4 required=7.0
	tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,
	      SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT_PINE,X_AUTH_WARNING
	version=2.41-cvs

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Justin Mason wrote:
=>http://spamassassin.org/released/ :
=>
=>  508284 Sep  2 18:27 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.40.tar.gz
=>  561425 Sep  2 18:27 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.40.zip
=>
Not that I'm not grateful, but..... :-)
I'd really like to install from a src rpm. Any takers? :-)
TIA
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[Skip Montanaro]
> After my latest cvs up, timtest fails with
>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "/home/skip/src/spambayes/timtest.py", line 294, in ?
>         drive(nsets)
>       File "/home/skip/src/spambayes/timtest.py", line 264, in drive
>         d = Driver()
>       File "/home/skip/src/spambayes/timtest.py", line 152, in __init__
>         self.global_ham_hist = Hist(options.nbuckets)
>     AttributeError: 'OptionsClass' object has no attribute 'nbuckets'
>
> I'm running it as
>
>     timtest -n5 > Data/timtest.out
>
> from my ~/Mail directory (not from my ~/src/spambayes directory).  If I
> create a symlink to ~/src/spambayes/bayes.ini it works once again, but
> shouldn't there be an nbuckets attribute with a default value already?
I never used ConfigParser before, but I read that its read() method silently
ignores files that don't exist.  If 'bayes.ini' isn't found, *none* of the
options will be defined.  Since you want to run this from a directory other
than my spambayes directory, it's up to you to check in changes to make that
possible <wink>.