I guaran-god-damn-tee it

[Jonathan Lighter]

In HDAS if anybody cares. See also entries on _damn_, _fricking_,
_frigging_, _fucking_, and _bloody_.

Some may also enjoy _irregoddamnless_.

JL

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The first such that I ever heard was,
>
> "Gimme a hammer, some-motherfuckin'-body!"
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> spoken very much aloud by class lout, Alfred Barnes, 13, in the midst
> of shop class.
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> At the time - in 1949, when I was in the eighth grade - I thought that
> it was the funniest thing that I had ever heard. Indeed, I thought so
> for many dekkids. That someone should split apart a word like
> _somebody_ and then insert an obscenity into the gap... Well, it was
> just too much for me. I cracked up over it for years.
>
> -Wilson
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> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>
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> > I need to get out more. Here's an example of tmesis I hadn't come across
> before:
> >
> > "You're gonna run across some guys out there who don't like me, I
> > guaran-dog-damn-tee it, but at the same time I bet there's not one of
> > 'em that would say, 'I wouldn't take him in a firefight.' And that's
> > what I'm looking for."
> >
> > Sebastian Junger, War, Kindle Edition, 2010, 60% into the book.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > Paul Frank
> > Translator
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> > paulfrank at post.harvard.edu
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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