"Suffering doughnuts!"

[George Thompson]

Regarding "Suffering succotash!", as the watchword of Sylvester the
Cat.  Gerald Cohen asks "is there any justification for succotash
appearing in this exclamation?"

My recollection is that Sylvester has a particularly liquid way of
speaking these words that suggests that he utters them in a spray of
spit -- not rendered visually, though.  "Suffering" is not an uncommon
word in such an exclamation, and the first and last sounds
of "succotash" also lend themselves to a moist pronunciation.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.