Kicked to death by grasshoppers (1817)

Mon Mar 15 04:58:16 UTC 2004

DEATH BY GRASSHOPPERS--6 Google hits, 1 Google Groups hit

   There aren't a lot of hits for this (alleged) Texas saying, but I thought it's amusing.  There are two early hits here.
   This surely would take a lot of grasshoppers!

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Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Abominable Dr. Phibes at ...
... death. There is a death by rats, a death by bees, a death by grasshoppers,
and Phibes sets everything with exceptional care. All ...
www.epinions.com/content_116965346948 - 39k - Cached - Similar pages

<html> <head> </head><body><pre>Beaufort County, NC - Letters ...
... I will pay you in eighteen months and not before. If I don't pay you
by that time I wish I may be kicked to death by Grasshoppers. ...
ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/ beaufort/letters/latham01.txt - 5k - Cached - Similar pages

Texan Sayings
... You can rest assured I'm telling you the truth. "I hope to be kicked
to death by grasshoppers if it ain't the truth." I'm not lying. ...
www.baetzler.de/humor/texan_sayings.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

[ELFWOOD] SF&F Art / Sarah Billson / Sarah Billson
... speakers, succeeding in christ, boogers, dancing to classical music, elves, writing,
chewing on pens, play-fighting with nephews, death by grasshoppers, gum on ...
elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/s/a/sarbil/ - 33k - Cached - Similar pages

(GOOGLE GROUPS)
Texas Sayings
... tell you a hen dips snuff, you can look under her wing." (You can rest assured I'm
telling you the truth.) "I hope to be kicked to death by grasshoppers if it ...
alt.tasteless.jokes - Jul 7, 2000 by G - P - View Thread (8 articles)

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Fresno Republican - 10/26/1878
...city, as well, deserves to be kicked to DEATH BY GRASSHOPPERS for the Bame thing.....know that the art o whistling was designed BY an Providence expressly to cause breaks or.....do, where the liabilitie were represented BY one or two or tare figures and a parcel of..
Fresno, California   Saturday, October 26, 1878  777 k

(AMERICAN PERIODICAL SERIES)
   Monthly catalogue of new publications, with critical remarks
E, L, V. The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review (1817-1819). New York: Oct 1817. Vol. 1, Iss. 6; p. 473 (5 pages):
Pg. 476:
  Keep Cool, a Novel.  Written in Hot Weather.  By Somebody, M. D. C. &c.
   Baltimore, Joseph Cushing.  New-York, Kirk & Mercein, 12mo. 2 vols. pp. 435.
(...)
   Among the vulgar jokes are such expressions as these, "kicked to death by grasshoppers," "like shot from a shovel," "a hurra's nest," "a hen in a hurricane," &c.