New thread--a curious thing

[Barbara Need]

>Sharyn Hay (storkrn <storkrn at EMAIL.MSN.COM>) writes:
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>Am I the only one with "yipes stripes" rolling around in my mind when I read
>this? I never heard "yipes" until some cartoon came up with that combo, or
>it may refer to Tony the Tiger. Yikes was my Connecticut 50's version.
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>(Hand up.) It was Stripe toothpaste. I, too, have fifties TV commercials
>fermenting in the depths of my brain banks.
>

I thought it was gum. A packet of gum had five flavors, each striped an
appropriate color. (A side note, we had pajamas with muli-colored stipes we
called our Yipes-Stripes pajamas.)

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics