From: pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu   
      
   Peter Fairbrother  writes:   
   >   
   > BTW, what's a peanut gallery question?   
      
   He was poking a little bit of fun at his own expense.   
      
   There was a very popular US children's TV show in the 1950s called   
   "Howdy Doody."  The studio audience (children, of course) was called   
   the Peanut Gallery.  So a question from the Peanut Gallery is   
   uninformed or naive.   
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