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Offline GunClick Rick

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Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« on: November 30, 2009, 04:14:58 PM »
WY I OUTTA!

Our Pard Angel Eyes needs help.. :D Although i'm sure i spelled oughtta wrong :P :P
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2009, 06:25:32 PM »
Quote from: GunClick Rick on November 30, 2009, 04:14:58 PM
WY I OUTTA!

Our Pard Angel Eyes needs help.. :D Although i'm sure i spelled oughtta wrong :P :P

That phrase, amigo, is from the silver screen.  It's in about 50 B Westerns and old-time radio dramas from the 1930's and 1940's.  It proved so popular that it found its way into the scripts of a large number of movies from the 1930's onward.  I'm not sure its possible to track down the first time it was uttered.

[And its probably best recorded as "Why, I oughta...!"]
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2009, 07:01:35 PM »
And here all along I thought it was the Three Stooges ...
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2009, 07:16:00 PM »
Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on November 30, 2009, 07:01:35 PM
And here all along I thought it was the Three Stooges ...

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2009, 07:16:33 PM »
That's where i was goin Wad :D
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2009, 07:52:05 PM »
Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on November 30, 2009, 07:01:35 PM
And here all along I thought it was the Three Stooges ...

Delmonico leaves the tread bitin' his tongue. ::)
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2009, 08:04:44 PM »
I appologize, Delomnico ....

But, like Roger Ravbbit, if you give me a one liner, I just gotta finish it ....

Like Shave and a haircut,

TWO BITS!
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My moniker is my great grandfather's name. He served with the 2nd Florida Mounted Regiment in the Civil War. Afterward, he came home, packed his wife into a wagon, and was one of the first NorteAmericanos on the Frio River southwest of San Antonio ..... Kinda where present day Dilley is ...

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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2009, 08:06:16 PM »
So what do the other "two" have to say fer themselves? ;D
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2009, 08:39:12 PM »
Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on November 30, 2009, 08:04:44 PM
... if you give me a one liner, I just gotta finish it ....

Like Shave and a haircut,

TWO BITS!

I wuz always taught that it was "Six Bits."  Guess that's clear evidence of inflation...
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2009, 11:16:39 PM »
Daniel N.,

You must be a your whipper snapper!  Was always "two bits" when I was growing up!
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2009, 09:53:20 AM »
Quote from: Dr. Bob on November 30, 2009, 11:16:39 PM
Daniel N.,

You must be a your whipper snapper!  Was always "two bits" when I was growing up!

I'm no longer able to whip or snap, but I do creak and groan from time to time. :-\ :-\

Actually, according to Wikipedia:" In the book Rascal by Sterling North, set in 1918, the narrator says 'six bits' (75 cents) instead of 'two bits'."  So apparently both have been in use for a rather long time.
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2009, 12:26:27 PM »
 :D :D like livin in a huanted house ain't it :P
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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2009, 01:10:19 PM »
Thanks for all the explanations, guys!

GCR, without you I wouldn't stand a 'ghost' of a chance!! (sic)

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Re: Who knows where this phrase comes from?
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2009, 01:34:16 PM »
Quote from: GunClick Rick on December 01, 2009, 12:26:27 PM
:D :D like livin in a huanted house ain't it :P

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