[Ads-l] Kibosh

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:56 AM, David Daniel <dad at coarsecourses.com> wrote:

> kibosh


For the first fifty or sixty years of my life, I didn't hear this word
spoken at all, but I read it as "kih-BOSH." The first time that I heard it
spoken - on some TV show 'nutha - I was startled to hear "KIGH-bosh." After
hearing it said that way a few times, I then started hearing "kih-BOSH,
too."

So, I've now dropped back five and punted, reverting to "[put the] bads
[on]," which I first heard in the Army in 1961.

Sadly, the fellow-GI who introduced me to the term, told the story of the
"sleeve-job" and the "walk-job," and composed "Wouldn't It Be Soldierly" to
the tune of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" - "All I want is my own M-1 / Which I
would never call a 'gun'" - has been rendered mute by a stroke.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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