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   Christopher M. Jones  wrote:   
   > Joe Pfeiffer wrote:   
   >> 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.   
      
   > The term "Peanut Gallery" is much older than Howdy Doody.  The   
   > "Peanut Gallery" originally meant the cheap seats in the nose bleed   
   > section far from the stage/field.  Since these are the cheap seats   
   > this is most often where you find the hecklers, such as those that   
   > might throw peanuts, thus the name.  A comment from the Peanut   
   > Gallery is akin to heckling or otherwise irreverent commentary.   
      
   Be that as it may, I was thinking of myself as uninformed or naieve   
   rather than irreverant - at least in this context :)   
      
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