Re: [HoE] Camp, Or how the horse was shot and the Audience Laughed

["B.D. Flory" <bflory@frontiernet.net>]

> <<Interesting... tell me, when did this usage of the term camp
originate?>>
> 
> Not sure.  Probably some time after the invention of dorm rooms.
> 
> Xerxes "Yes, I'm serious too."

I have a dictionary with an entry on the term camp, dated 1947.  It refers
to the concept we've been discussing- as such, I very much doubt the term
originated with campus "movie clubs".  I'd be surprised if such things even
*existed* circa 1947.

B.D. "library boy" Flory