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Tigerisms
Written May 6, 2002

 

At Richwood High School, we were as inventive as anyone with regard to the English language.

On a page in the back of one of my notebooks, I jotted down colorful phrases as I heard them.  These appear to date from 1964 and 1965.

 

PRESUFFIXES

Who Said It

put it point-blankly

x

income and excome

Carl Martin

furtherlier

x

angrifying

x

easierly

x

stable-ility

John Caudill

downfallment

x

x

MUTATIONS

Who Said It

nursey rhyme

x

pedastool

Frank Zirbel

getting picky-ante

x

beat to the punchbowl

Dean Cochran

one man warys one moman

x

take it or believe it 

Mike Phelps

the describition of a horse

x

don't forgent to call

x

jopudopy opallgopowoper

(I have no idea)

x

TURNS OF PHRASE

Who Said It

You can give one person blood and another person not blood.

x

He's making $150 a week and bringing home $200.

x

Jump up and down and scream bloody American aggression.

Kelly Drake

I didn't read it.  I just wrote it.

x

You don't miss these people until they're absent.

x

An ounce of praise is worth a pound of criticism.

x

x

JOKES AND JIBES

Who Said It

Kelly, you're getting carried away.  Right out to the incinerator.

x

Sailor:  "Have a weak stomach?"  Seasick man:  "No, I seem to be getting as much distance as any of them."

Bruce Cahill

You can't hear yourself think?  You aren't missing anything.

Criss Somerlot

 

TBT

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