"Plant you now and dig you later" (1935)

[Wilson Gray]

What's "so stupid [that you] love it"? Or do you mean, "_mad stupid_"?

-Wilson

On Feb 17, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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> This is so stupid I love it. The HDAS has it from the New York Times
> of May
> 9, 1943. (The first "dig" entry there is 1938.) It's repeated twice in
> the
> following book I was going through.
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> ...
> THE BOOK OF NEGRO FOLKLORE
> edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps
> New York: Dodd, Mead & Company
> 1958
> ...
> Pg. 480:
> "Like the farmer and the 'tater, plant you now and dig you
> later"--means,  "I
> must go, but I'll remember you."
> ...
> Pg. 486 (HARLEM JIVE TALK, IDIOMS, FOLK EXPRESSIONS):
> PLANT YOU NOW AND DIG YOU LATER: I'll leave you now to see you by and
> by.
> ...
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> (NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
>      _Hammond Times _
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=9qnHh8I+Pl6KID/
> 6NLMW2nLhVKQpr+YtsGEMdnKdZ9roBG8iBNFqP0IF+CsZYmrz)  Thursday,
> September 05, 1935 _Hammond,_
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:
> hammond+plant+you+now+and+dig+you+later+AND)  _Indiana_
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:
> indiana+plant+you+now+and+dig+you+later+A
> ND)
> ...dictionary: "I'll  PLANT YOU NOW AND DIG  YOU LATER, which
> means.....studies have indicated  that had our PLANT been used to
> capacity in 1929  over..
>
> ...
> _Hammond Times _
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=9qnHh8I+Pl6KID/
> 6NLMW2nLhVKQpr+YtqMBfI4M4wcyFJqGGi4mX1kIF+CsZYmrz)  Thursday,
> September
> 05, 1935 _Hammond,_
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:
> hammond+plant+you+now+and+dig+you+later+AND)  _Indiana_
> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:
> indiana+plant+you+now+and+dig+you+later+AND)
>
> ...dictionary: "I'll  PLANT YOU NOW AND DIG  YOU LATER, means, "Take
> it.....studies have.  indicated that had our PLANT been used to
> capacity in 1929
> over..
> Pg. 4, col.  3:
> MY NEW YORK by  James Aswell
> (...)
> For the new  Harlemerican dictionary: "I'll plant you now and dig you
> later,
> gate!"--which means, "Take it easy. I'll see you later."
>