Citations:egoboo

English citations of egoboo

Noun: "a pleasant feeling" edit

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1947 June, Rick Sneary, “[letter column]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 2, page 100:
If you must print all these names, why not do it like the old SFL list, just the name and address. In small print. It would ego boo your readers and live^[sic] room for the more interesting letters.
1948 February, Rick Sneary, “[letter column]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 31, number 3, page 98:
Well after the pile of ego-boo I got in the Oct. issue I just couldn't let it slip by without telling you what I think of this much heralded issue.
1950 December, Lee Hoffman, “Chaos”, in Quandry‎^[1], number 5, page 2:
If you like QUANDRY let us know ... we need the ego-boo.
1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II‎^[2], Egoboo:
Fandom may be defined as an infinitely complex system for the production of pure egoboo. Indeed, the universe itself was created for egoboo (Psalms 145:10) if we are to believe the stories.
1959, Carl Brandon, “The Field of Rosebuds”, in The BNF Of Iz‎^[3]:
And so the four fans finished their meals and settled down for a good night's sleep. In the morning they rose and had a brief breakfast. Dorothy finished the berries, and the Tin Woodsfan took out a little record player and played a record of applause for himself and the other inhabitants of Iz. He explained that it was called canned egoboo.
1976 November, Lee Hoffman, “Editorial”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎^[4], number 6, page 4:
So this lustrum, yhos sits upon a bed of laurels, basking in the glow of past achievement and anticipating fresh shipments of egoboo, while Terry Hughes does the donkey drudgery of producing this issue.
2012 July 2, David Langford, “Ansible 300”, in Ansible‎^[5], retrieved 2017-07-04:
Relaxing the stern Ansible rule of omitting mere egoboo, here's a selection from the 'Gosh, isn't 300 a shiny round number' postbag.