fork-sticks and toast

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:59 PM -0500 12/13/03, sagehen wrote:
>  >"STICK A FORK IN HIM--HE'S DONE"
>>
>>    A happy all-American phrase blend of baseball and barbecue.
>>    I had found 1953, but I re-checked on the newly digitized THE SPORTING
>>NEWS and on Ancestry ("stick" + "fork" + pitcher").  Once again,
>>Ancestry beat
>>THE SPORTING NEWS, and by a lot.
>  ~~~~~~~
>Along similar lines:
>We happened on the last minute of a (?)game show last night just as the
>emcee was saying, "Put a pat of butter on it.  This show is toast!"
>A. Murie

Which for me, to return to the sports metaphors, brings to mind a
rather unsuccessful defensive back for the New York Giants a while
back named Elvis Patterson.  He was universally known as "Toast"
Patterson because he was so often "burned" (beaten for long and/or
touchdown passes).

larry