exactamundo was Re: gigung(o)us, gigund(o)us, gigunda, gigundo

[Dave Robertson]

Didn't the character Fonzie on "Happy Days" in the 1970s always say
"exactamundo"?

--Dave R


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> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:27:17 -0500, Mullins, Bill
> <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
>>> And influencing the thus-far-unrecorded _exactamundo_ (1990,
>>> or perhaps earlier?):
>>
>>>From Newsbank:
>>ORANGEMEN WIN IN A NEAR-WALK -
>>DON'T CALL IT A MASTERPIECE OF BASKETBALL
>>Syracuse Herald-Journal (NY)
>>March 20, 1989
>>Author: Bud Poliquin
>>
>>"``It,'' said Owens, ``was like playing a scrimmage game.''
>>
>>Exactamundo. And, never mind that the teams didn't go skins-and-shirts."
>
> I believe "exactamundo" was popularized by the cartoon series "Teenage
> Mutant Ninja Turtles", which aired in the US beginning in 1987.  The
> character Michelangelo had a penchant for faux-Hispanicisms/Italicisms.
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> Some of Michelangelo's favorite expressions are "Exactamundo," "Awesome,"
> "Tubuloso," "Primo to the extremo," "Holy Guacamole," and "Cowabunga!"
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>
> "Cowabunga" is of course a Howdy Doody-derived surferism that Bart Simpson
> also helped to revive starting c1987 (Bart first said it back when "The
> Simpsons" was still a short feature on "The Tracey Ullman Show").
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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