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



In a message dated 7/29/99 1:57:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bflory@frontiernet.net writes:

<< > I'd have to say you are quite off on that definintion of camp my friend. 
 
 > Camp is named camp merely because the movies that earned the title were 
 > popular on university 'camp'uses.  If you want a current idea of 'Camp',
 go 
 > to your local University, and sit in on some movie parties.
 > 
 > And yes, Killer Tomatoes was 'Camp' when it came out.
 > 
 > Xerxes
 
 Interesting... tell me, when did this usage of the term camp originate?
 
 B.D. "I'm serious" Flory
  >>

My guess would be the 70's, everything happened in the seventies.
                Crash
    "the monkeys know the eighties sucked"