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<div id="earp">'''Earp, Marshal Wyatt (1948-1929)'''</div>
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American farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. He is also noted for the Earp Vendetta. Wyatt Earp has become an iconic figure in American folk history; [[Chapter_13#Page_219|219]]; his coffee mug which was specially designed to keep his mustache dry; gift to Bigfoot, 263; value of mug, 335<br/>
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Earp's mustache also features in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=E#earp Gravity's Rainbow].
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'''Easter Island'''<br>
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'''Eagles (the band)'''<br/>
355; A Pacific island famous for its stone human figures, seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg here].
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189, "Lyin' Eyes";
  
'''Eastwood, Clint (b. 1930)'''<br />
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'''Easy Off oven cleaner'''<br />
204; an American actor, film director, producer and composer. He has received four Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards. Eastwood is primarily known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in violent action films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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'''Eddie and the Showmen'''<br />
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'''Eddie'''<br />
124; Guitarist Eddie Bertrand quit the surf combo The Bel-Airs (of "Mr Moto" fame) over an argument with co-guitarist Paul Johnson. Apparently, Paul Johnson objected to Eddie's heavy use of spring reverb. His band, Eddie and the Showmen, broke up in 1965.
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189, in Junior's Ooh-La-Lounge
  
'''"Eight Miles High"'''<br />
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'''Edith'''<br />
Druggy song written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, and David Crosby, first released as a single in March 1966 by the rock band The Byrds. The single reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #24 in the United Kingdom. The song was also included on the band's third album ''Fifth Dimension'', released on July 18, 1966; on the radio, 135
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9, barista at Yenta Express; 251;  
  
'''Einer'''<br />
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'''Ehbler-Cohen ticket'''<br />
215; Puck Beaverton's roommate; in Nine of Diamonds, 231
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401 - One of Maxine's cases
  
'''Electric Prunes'''<br />
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'''Eighth Circle'''<br />
Rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s, and contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of ''Easy Rider''. Their first hit was "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" (1966); 103
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18 – An executive CFE's club over on Park;  In Dante's ''Inferno'' hell is set up so that categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle (and placement within that circle) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Sinners placed in the upper circles of hell are given relatively minor punishments, while sinners in the depths of hell endure far greater torments. As the eighth of nine circles, Malebolge, the name for the Eighth Circle, is one of the worst places in hell to be.
  
'''Elephant's Memory'''<br />
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'''Elaine'''<br/>
New York band most notable for backing up John Lennon and Yoko Ono during 1972 (appearing as the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band) on a pair of albums and a handful of TV and live appearances; bootleg tape of, 368
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See "Tarnow, Elaine & Ernie"
  
'''Elfmont'''<br />
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'''El Atildado'''<br />
43; drummer in the Corvairs
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296 - New York City barbershop; "atildado" means stylish or elegant in Spanish.
  
'''Elmina'''<br />
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'''Elbit'''<br />
See Breeze, Elmina
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248 - Manufactures listening/transmitting device on computers; Elbit Systems Ltd. is an international defense electronics company engaged in a wide range of programs throughout the world. [http://www.elbitsystems.com/elbitmain/]
  
'''Ensenada Slim'''<br />
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'''El Sueño Tropical'''<br />
10; "village elder" who operates a headshop called Screaming Ultraviolet Brain; 35; 256
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16, half-built and abandoned luxury hotel near borderline with Haiti and Dominican Republic, where Maxine and Reg end up after having Dominican mamajuana;
  
'''Epic Lunch'''<br />
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'''Electra, Carmen'''<br />
256; one of Doc's hangouts in Gordita Beach
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74, ''Baywatch''
  
'''Erskine, Inspector Lewis "Lew"'''<br />
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'''Ellison, Larry'''<br />
75; The fictional character played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1965-1974 ABC TV series ''The FBI''; 222
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118 - CEO of Oracle and one rich cat.
  
'''Eskenazi, Roza (1890-1980)'''<br />
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'''Elvis Hitler'''<br />
249; was a famous Greek singer of Rebetiko and traditional Greek music from Asia Minor. Her recording career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Her style was called Rebetiko, a type of Greek urban folk music that combines European and Middle Eastern music, and sometimes called the Greek blues, the themes being predominantly hard-luck women, no-good men, drinking, hashish and poverty.
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175 - Yes, there really existed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Hitler such a band] AND [http://youtu.be/4FFgxJsjqkg song], as described!
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{{#ev:youtube|4FFgxJsjqkg}}
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'''Enrico's Italian Kitchen'''<br />
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<div id="epperdew"></div>'''Epperdew, Phipps ('Vip')'''<br />
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87, bent owner of [[M#muffins|Muffins and Unicorns]]; in porn video, aka [[W#westchester willy|Westchester Willy]] 177; jumped bail, 236; 404;
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'''Epstein, Wesley'''<br />
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'''Eric'''<br/>
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'''Ernie'''<br/>
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'''Erolfa'''<br />
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202 - An expensive aquatic fragrance of orange, lemon, mandarin, rosemary, and cedar wood, made by Creed. It is [[http://www.amazon.com/Erolfa-Creed-Men-Millesime-Spray/dp/B000XE25T2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378173173&sr=8-1&keywords=erolfa+creed still marketed]].
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'''Eternal September'''<br />
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174 "disused techies' saloon" where Maxine meets Traipse. In Usenet slang, Eternal September (or the September that never ended) began in September 1993, the month that internet service provider America Online (AOL) began offering Usenet access to its tens of thousands, and later millions, of users. Before then, every year in September, a large number of new university freshmen acquired access to Usenet for the first time, and took some time to become accustomed to Usenet's standards of conduct and "netiquette". But, after a month or so, these new users would learn the networks' social norms or simply tire of using the service. However, for the pre-existing users of Usenet, the influx of new users from September 1993 onwards was a new and endless manifestation of the phenomenon. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Wikipedia entry]
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'''Everly Brothers'''<br />
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"Bird Dog" 235;
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'''Evil Empire'''<br />
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48 - This phrase was "popularized" in the film ''Star Wars'' (1977), directed by George Lucas, which follows a group of freedom fighters known as the Rebel Alliance as they plot to destroy the powerful Death Star space station, a devastating weapon created by the '''evil Galactic Empire'''.
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In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, urged the Free World to stand up to "the aggressive impulses of '''an evil empire'''." He was referring to the Soviet Union.
  
'''Ev'''<br />
 
226; geezer in Curly's in Las Vegas
 
  
'''"Everything's Coming Up Roses"'''<br />
 
247; a song from the 1959 Broadway musical ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne. It was most famously sung by Ethel Merman. It is notable for its ironic placement in the show, as well its unusual use of musical triplets in the melody.
 
 
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189, "Lyin' Eyes";

Easy Off oven cleaner
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Eddie
189, in Junior's Ooh-La-Lounge

Edith
9, barista at Yenta Express; 251;

Ehbler-Cohen ticket
401 - One of Maxine's cases

Eighth Circle
18 – An executive CFE's club over on Park; In Dante's Inferno hell is set up so that categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle (and placement within that circle) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Sinners placed in the upper circles of hell are given relatively minor punishments, while sinners in the depths of hell endure far greater torments. As the eighth of nine circles, Malebolge, the name for the Eighth Circle, is one of the worst places in hell to be.

Elaine
See "Tarnow, Elaine & Ernie"

El Atildado
296 - New York City barbershop; "atildado" means stylish or elegant in Spanish.

Elbit
248 - Manufactures listening/transmitting device on computers; Elbit Systems Ltd. is an international defense electronics company engaged in a wide range of programs throughout the world. [1]

El Sueño Tropical
16, half-built and abandoned luxury hotel near borderline with Haiti and Dominican Republic, where Maxine and Reg end up after having Dominican mamajuana;

Electra, Carmen
74, Baywatch

Ellison, Larry
118 - CEO of Oracle and one rich cat.

Elvis Hitler
175 - Yes, there really existed such a band AND song, as described!

Enrico's Italian Kitchen
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Epperdew, Phipps ('Vip')

87, bent owner of Muffins and Unicorns; in porn video, aka Westchester Willy 177; jumped bail, 236; 404;

Epstein, Wesley
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Eric
See "Outfield, Eric"

Ernie
See "Tarnow, Elaine & Ernie"

Erolfa
202 - An expensive aquatic fragrance of orange, lemon, mandarin, rosemary, and cedar wood, made by Creed. It is [still marketed].

Eternal September
174 "disused techies' saloon" where Maxine meets Traipse. In Usenet slang, Eternal September (or the September that never ended) began in September 1993, the month that internet service provider America Online (AOL) began offering Usenet access to its tens of thousands, and later millions, of users. Before then, every year in September, a large number of new university freshmen acquired access to Usenet for the first time, and took some time to become accustomed to Usenet's standards of conduct and "netiquette". But, after a month or so, these new users would learn the networks' social norms or simply tire of using the service. However, for the pre-existing users of Usenet, the influx of new users from September 1993 onwards was a new and endless manifestation of the phenomenon. Wikipedia entry

Everly Brothers
"Bird Dog" 235;


Evil Empire
48 - This phrase was "popularized" in the film Star Wars (1977), directed by George Lucas, which follows a group of freedom fighters known as the Rebel Alliance as they plot to destroy the powerful Death Star space station, a devastating weapon created by the evil Galactic Empire.

In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan, in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, urged the Free World to stand up to "the aggressive impulses of an evil empire." He was referring to the Soviet Union.


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