"That's gotta hurt!" (1989)

[Jonathan Lighter]

My best guess is that I first heard it during the 1977 or 1978 AL pennant race.  I'd paid little attention to baseball for many years, but watched a lot of Yankee games on WPIX during those truly dramatic seasons.

JL

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On Nov 8, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> This is older than 1989, though I can't say by how much. Ten years?
> Maybe. Twenty? Maybe not.
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> JL
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I agree, though, unfortunately, I can't come up with any kind of real
date, either, despite the fact that it once had catchphrase status. You
used to hear it on SNL, ca.1982. Joe Piscopo and Billy Crystal had a
series of show-opening sketches in which they discussed various ways of
inflicting pain on themselves. One would ask something like, "Have you
ever used a hacksaw blade to slice the webs of your toes and then
sprinkled Tabasco into the cuts?" At some point in the discussion, one
of them would comment something like, "Whoa! That's gotta hurt!" But it
seems to me that the phrase was already out there. Piscopo and Crystal
merely incorporated it into their skits.

-Wilson Gray

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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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