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	Spitting Image
		The premiere of Spitting Image opened with a puppet caricature of Israel's prime minister Menachem Begin wearing a magician's outfit.
		Spitting Image was roundly condemned for its lampooning of the Royal family: the Queen was portrayed as a harried housewife, beset by randy, dullard children and screaming grandkids.
		Spitting Image, the pilot's title, exhausted the resources of several backers, including computer executive Clive Sinclair, before it was completed at a cost of 150,000 pounds, a record for a light entertainment program.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/spittingimag/spittingimag.htm (1025 words)

	Debunking a Spitting Image
		The image of spat-upon veterans is the icon through which many people remember the loss of the war, the centerpiece of a betrayal narrative that understands the war to have been lost because of treason on the home front.
		Many tellers of the spitting tales identify the culprits as girls, a curious quality to the stories that gives away their gendered subtext.
		Debunking them one by one is unlikely to slow their proliferation but, by contesting them where and when we can, we engage the historical record in a way that helps all of us remember that, in the end, soldiers and veterans joined with civilians to stop a war that should have never been fought.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0430-21.htm (844 words)

	YouTube - Spitting Image episode 2 part [2/3]
		Part two from a Spitting Image episode broadcast in 1984.
		SPITTING IMAGE - SUPERMODELS - Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell
		Spitting Image: "Queen" - We Are The Champions parody
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=qThWSTWYu6w (488 words)

	Spitting image
		One of the very first questions that was asked at the Phrasefinder bulletin board was about 'spitting image'.
		The numerous forms of the term 'spitting image' - spit and image, spitten image, the dead spit of etc., appear not to derive from 'split' but from 'spit'.
		Some commentators have suggested that 'spit' may be a corruption of 'spirit', but that appears to be fanciful and isn't backed up by any early examples of 'spirit and image'.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/spitting-image.html (488 words)

	Spitting Image
		Leon and the Spitting Image is about a hotel full of animals.
		When John Waters, a successful businessman, meets the spitting image of his dead college sweetheart, he is a little confused.
		When this new woman, Eve Summer, begins to intrude on his marriage, he is more than a little concerned.
	www.vitalimage.com /spitting-image.htm (192 words)

	The Spitting Image
		She is usually pretty calm but when she is being brushed or shorn, she is going to let you know that she is not happy about it.
		It is all over in a quarter of a second except that she is going to have the taste in her mouth for an hour or so now.
		The cud is just dripping out of her mouth at this point and the chute that she was in had to be hosed out.
	www.mountlehmanllamas.com /spitting.html (329 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of "spitting image"?
		The term "spittin' image" is a shortening of the original "spit and image," which means that you are both the stuff that your parents are made of (the spit) and you look like them, too (the image).
		Some of the folk etymologies have the spit (expectoration) and image (a doll) used in a fl magic ceremony to clone you; others cite "spat" (the offspring of shellfish) as part of the origin.
		In other words, the original would have been, "She's the very spirit and image of her mother." Other authorities favor the phrase "spitting image" means a "speaking likeness" and reference a 1602 source in support of this.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mspittinimage.html (365 words)

	Spitting image of Shanghai - Boston.com
		Taxi drivers in China's financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with "spit sacks" to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road, state media reported on Tuesday.
		SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Taxi drivers in China's financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with "spit sacks" to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road, state media reported on Tuesday.
		The spit sack follows an earlier innovation in Shanghai's public hygiene, after the city attached spittoons to garbage cans on sidewalks, the newspaper reported.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/23/spitting_image_of_shanghai (268 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Spitting Image (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spitting Image was a satirical puppet-show that ran on Britain's ITV Network from 1984 to 1992.
		DC Follies had a passing resemblance to Spitting Image, but was not considered as funny.
		In 1986, the Spitting Image puppets had a number one hit in the UK charts with "The Chicken Song", one of several parodies to have featured in the programme.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/sp/Spitting_Image (225 words)

	Seattle's spitting image is just that, spitting
		In Japan, spitting in the dugout is a profanity, but in the United States, a major league ballpark is a colossal spittoon that has to be hosed down with blue disinfectant after every game.
		Spit should be blown not ptuied weakly with the lips, which often results in dribble...
		Spit's etymology is found in the word spital, the root of hospital, particularly a hospital for patients with contagious diseases.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/259110_saliva12.html (883 words)

	End of Shanghai's spitting image - Travel - smh.com.au
		Taxi drivers in China's financial capital of Shanghai are to be issued with "spit sacks" to curb their habit of rolling down their windows and hawking into the road, state media reported today.
		The special sacks will be distributed to 45,000 taxis by the Shanghai Patriotic Sanitation Committee to curb spitting in public places, a habit Chinese authorities have long been trying to discourage.
		The spit sack follows an earlier innovation in Shanghai's public hygiene, after the city attached spittoons to garbage cans on sidewalks, the newspaper reported.
	www.smh.com.au /news/travel/end-of-shanghais-spitting-image/2007/01/23/1169518692026.html (314 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		Spitting image, a relatively informal term meaning 'exact likeness; counterpart', has been around in one form or another for about a century.
		Spitting, informally spittin', is often said in exactly the same way, and interpreting "SPIT-n" as spitting instead of spit and was an understandable development.
		Spitting image, once considered a mistake, is increasingly current, although spit and image is still in use.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20000310 (453 words)

	80sNostalgia.com :: It's where the 80s are. (Reviews) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While the news was trying to be diplomatic about sensitive situations, Spitting Image just came out and said what had to be said.
		That aside, Spitting Image has to be one of the all time classic TV programmes ever.
		Although the Spitting Image episodes of my day (btw, do you remember when all this was fields?) was classic, the quality unfortunately went down hill during the 90s.
	www.80snostalgia.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=106 (529 words)

	Synonym for spitting image (n) - antonym for spitting image (n) - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta
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		Synonyms: double, dead ringer, twin, clone, chip off the old block, image, spit, doppelgänger
	encarta.msn.com /thesaurus_561588700/spitting_image.html (85 words)

	Spitting Image-Editorial-OPINION-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spitting in India is far more common even though it may not be practised by candidates seeking political office and that too while being interviewed on a talk show.
		Chewing tobacco and spitting it out was commonly practised in the Wild West until the cigarette manufacturers conditioned users of tobacco products into believing that smoking the stuff was far more graceful.
		However, in India smokers continue to exercise their right to spit regardless of whether they chew betel nut or not.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=22499748 (325 words)

	Amazon.com: Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam: Books: Jerry Lembcke (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Similar images were common in post-World War I Germany and France after Indochina; Lembcke suggests the Nixon administration cultivated this notion of betrayal because it stigmatized both the antiwar movement and veterans against the war.
		While violence and 'spitting' did occur, it was normally against the peace activist or even the anti-war veteran, who received the harshest treatment from hawks and mainstream veterans organizations who looked down on them for losing the war.
		Moreover, the earliest examples of "spitting" being referenced during the war pertain to pro-war folks threatening to spit on anti-war protesters.
	www.amazon.com /Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/0814751474 (2266 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Spitting Image plans ITV return
		Spitting Image producer John Lloyd is in talks with ITV in a bid to bring the satirical series back to the channel.
		In 1985, the late Guinness Book of Records founder Norris McWhirter unsuccessfully tried to sue the Independent Broadcasting Authority, which controlled ITV at the time, after Spitting Image put a picture of his face onto a nude female body.
		But he believed the current political climate was ripe with targets for Spitting Image.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3720773.stm (379 words)

	China's spitting image to be overturned
		One of the biggest challenges is to ban public spitting.
		Keen to present its best face to the world during the prestigious sporting event, the government in Beijing has declared war on expectorating in public in a county where phlegm is as ubiquitous on the ground as dog poop in some European cities.
		The issue of spitting in public was first tackled by the Chinese government in a 2003 awareness campaign aimed at curbing the spread of SARS.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2006-03/03/content_526096.htm (337 words)

	The Eggcorn Database » spitting image
		Most major dictionaries report that spitting image is an alteration of spit and image.
		In an article in American Speech, however, Larry Horn argues that the expression was originally spitten image (spitten being a now-archaic dialectal form of the past participle of spit), and that both spit and image and spitting image are later reinterpretations.
		Both the splitting image and spirit and image explanations are considered and rejected in Horn’s American Speech article.
	eggcorns.lascribe.net /english/332/spitting-image (396 words)

	Spitting Image Cartoons
		You are looking at the "spitting image" cartoon page from the CartoonStock directory.
		Spitting Image cartoon 1 - catalog reference rth0572
		Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/s/spitting_image.asp (143 words)

	Spitting Image
		Many Americans carry the image in their heads: The Vietnam vet, returning from war, gets off the plane in San Francisco and is greeted by protesters with shouts of “Baby killer!” Then, out of the crowd, a protester rushes forward and spits on the vet.
		This image is so widespread that by early 1991 (during the Persian Gulf war) polls showed that the majority of the American people believed the anti—Vietnam war movement had been anti-soldier and had, in many cases, actually spat upon returning troops.
		In The Spitting Image Jerry Lembcke shows how this image is a myth that serves the interests of the powerful who led the U.S. to war.
	www.laborstandard.org /Vol1No3/SpittingImage.htm (950 words)

	Media Lens :: View topic - Bring back Spitting Image: correct distorted vision
		It was always said that Spitting Image was ahead of its time - well the future's here and it's time is now - or should be and could be if only the public would start to scream and shout and spit some fire and blood to get the series back onto our satire-lite TV screens.
		Spitting Image had exceptional moments but it was always very patchy.
		I agree that Sptting Image was shamefully insipid and horribly self-satisfied.
	www.medialens.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=239&highlight= (1137 words)

	Leon and the Spitting Image \| Book Review \| Allen Kurzweil \| HarperCollins \| Teen Novel \| Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Leon and the Spitting Image follows Leon Zeisel through the fourth grade at the Ethical School, where their motto is "Nimble fingers make for nimble minds." In the fourth grade, Miss Cronheim makes her students sew to keep their fingers nimble.
		Leon and the Spitting Image - Thumbs Up Leon and the Spitting Image is littered with interesting characters, settings and scenarios.
		From Miss Cronheim and her Velcro wig to Leon's obsesssion with the hometowns of taxi cab drivers, there is never a dull moment from start to finish.
	www.kidzworld.com /article/3796-book-review-leon-and-the-spitting-image (278 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Spitting Image
		In Spitting Image, famous characters in British and international life were re-created in the form of latex puppets, which - in the manner of newspaper political cartoons - grossly exaggerated that person's most obvious facial or personality characteristic.
		Some puppets turned up in the 9 March 1986 episode of the LWT sitcom Hot Metal The scripting of an edition of Spitting Image was documented in an ITV schools half-hour first transmitted in The English Programme and then first repeated as a stand-alone transmission, The Writing Of Spitting Image, on 24 August 1986.
		Spitting Image Productions moved into stop-motion animation with Crapston Villas (C4, nine episodes 27 October-22 December 1995; ten further episodes 7 November 1997-19 January 1998) - this was a malevolent soap opera written and directed by Sarah Ann Kennedy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/s/spittingimage_7775945.shtml (1684 words)

	World Wide Words: Spitting image
		Larry Horn, Professor of Linguistics at Yale, argues convincingly that the original form was actually spitten image, using the old dialectal past participle form of spit.
		He suggests that the phrase was reinterpreted when that form went out of use, first as spit ’n’ image and then as spit and image or spitting image.
		Quite a different origin is suggested by other writers, who argue that spit is really an abbreviation of spirit, suggesting that someone is so similar to another as to be identical in mind as well as body.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-spi1.htm (303 words)

	Spitting Image: Moonlighting's Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd
		Spitting Image: Moonlighting's Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd
		The British Satire program, Spitting Image aired regularly on the BBC from 1984-1996.
		This little snippet is a clever way to poke fun at the reputation Moonlighting has for bawdy innuendo and double entendre.
	www.davidandmaddie.com /spitimage.htm (382 words)

	Spitting Image
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		Spitting Image, a brief history of the show, written by the BBC (it was on a rival channel!).
		You have probably guessed by now, Spitting Image is one of our all time favourite shows.........
	mysite.verizon.net /vze48sdz/id2.html (108 words)

	SmartSquares
		The same image is also located behind one of the other buttons on the screen.
		Hidden image slowly revealed as matches are made.
		The hidden image can be printed once completely displayed - perfect for coloring.
	www.spitting-image.com /products/smartkids/smartsquares/index.htm (341 words)

	spitting image - Synonyms from Thesaurus.com
		Doppelganger, carbon copy, copy, dead ringer, duplicate, eidetic image, exact counterpart, exact duplicate, facsimile, image of, living image, living picture, lookalike, mirror image, picture of, replica, spit and image, twin, very image
		carbon copy, copy, Doppelganger, eidetic image, exact counterpart, exact duplicate, facsimile, living image, living picture, lookalike, mirror image, replica, spit and image, spitting image, the image of, very image, very picture
		angel, clone, companion, coordinate, copy, counterpart, dead ringer, duplicate, image, impersonator, look-alike, match, mate, picture, portrait, reciprocal, replica, ringer, simulacrum, spit, spitting image, stand-in, twin
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