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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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