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[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> A candy bar associated with Ned Flanders in _The Simpsons Tree House of
> Horror: Dead Man's Jest_ (N.Y.: Harper, 2008), p. 83, may be described as
> follows:
>
> On a field, azure, a dexter arm fesseways, sleeve argent, issuing out of a
> cloud, the same, the thumb, or, rampant, the field emblazoned "Mr. GODBar,"
> argent: and, beneath, in or, "It's Sacrilicious!"

First used in the episode "Homer Loves Flanders," which aired in March 1994:

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F14.html

Arnold Zwicky made mention of it in a 2006 discussion of the "-(V)licious"
suffix on Language Log:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003542.html


--Ben Zimmer

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