"That's gotta hurt!" (1989)

[Jonathan Lighter]

This is older than 1989, though I can't say by how much. Ten years? Maybe. Twenty? Maybe not.

I associate it with baseball and football announcers.

JL

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Greetings from the Singapore Airport. I have a 16-hour layover until my 23-hour-55-minute flight to New York.

BARRY POPICK/POPKIN--Happens every single time, every single thing I do, over my entire life. It's not just the NY Times (write to corrections for me!). It's not just the NY Sun. It's not just "Dear Abby." The 1996 NY Times piece on me about my research on model Audrey Munson called me "Barry Popick." It was corrected--four years later! After six years of struggle, www.hot-dog.org finally surrendered (in 2001) and admitted the TAD story was an origination myth. I'm "Barry Popick" on that web page to this day. This is not trivial--people do search for your name.

THAT'S GOTTAT HURT--12,300 Google hits, 12,800 Google Groups hits

I just heard this Fred Shapiro-worthy phrase on an action video. I don't know what he has for it (if anything). It appears to come from professional wrestling.


(GOOGLE GROUPS)
Summit of E-Wrestling Day 2
... That's gotta hurt!' Coward: 'Morganna the Kissing Bandit is eliminated.' Vince:
'Well that's one down and six to go, and there's the buzzer again.' Coward ...
rec.games.pbm - 28 Dec 1991 by Francois LARAMEE - View Thread (1 article)

Conclusion of Re: A Simple Question
... set on a rock. . . **BANG!!>>> Oooh, that's gotta hurt! What
happened? The kid had reliable book knowledge. But no matter ...
alt.magick - 13 Oct 1991 by Michael Smith - View Thread (1 article)

Re: Most Inhibitionless
... UTexas Austin | out there in the starlight, one soul burns tmca at astro.as.utexas.edu
| brighter than a thousand suns." - Simple Minds ^ That's *gotta* hurt, too ...
alt.sex - 18 Sep 1990 by Jabberwokky - View Thread (13 articles)

Re: WWF Theory
... the way. I remember the table was trashed pretty good and I thought to
myself, "Damn, real or not, that's gotta hurt". Anyways, Heenan ...
rec.sport.pro-wrestling - 29 Apr 1990 by horr at ecs.umass.edu - View Thread (20 articles)

Re: Safety Of Scrotum Rings
... (God, that's gotta hurt!) -- -alex
| alex at Atherton.COM | Caution! ...
alt.sex - 18 Apr 1990 by Alex Leavens - View Thread (5 articles)

Re: MIRACLE MILE
... In Miracle Mile, you DON'T CARE. At least I didn't. Secondly, In another action movie
when a cop or someone dies, you say to yourself, "Gee, that's gotta hurt. ...
rec.arts.movies - 20 Jun 1989 by operator at compsys.mu.edu - View Thread (31 articles)


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