"Hot enough for you?" (1876, 1878, 1880)

[George Thompson]

While we're on the subject. . . .

This evidently was a golden age for weather-related wit and humor, and
even flippancy.

>From Proquest:
YESTERDAY'S HEAVY RAIN STORM.  New York Times, August 6, 1884. p. 8
"*** "This is the sort of weather for ducks," remarked the young lady to
the conductor of a Sixth-Avenue horse car as she boarded the vehicle at
Jefferson Market yesterday.
"Yes," replied he of the car, with an admiring look, "and yet you don't
seem happy."
"Conductor," was the stern rejoinder, "Your number, please.  I'll report
you for flippancy."

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 10:26 pm
Subject: Re: "Hot enough for you?" (1876, 1878, 1880)

> In a message dated 8/1/2006 10:12:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> Bapopik at AOL.COM writes:
> >I  found it in NewspaperArchive ("The Daily Miner," Montana
> (quoted  from
> Boston "Journal"), 1882). Seems a cliche there  too.
> Scot
> ...
> ...
> From American Historical  Newspapers:
> ...
> 29 June 1876, Wheeling (WV) Register, pg. 3:
> IT is  bad enough to have the thermometer in the nineties, without
> beingobliged  to answer on every corner the imbecile greeting: "Is
> it hot enough
> for
> you  to-day?"
> ...
> ...
> Make that 28 June 1876.
> ...
> ...
> 28 March 1915, Dallas Morning News, pg. 4:
> _WAITERS' SLANG._
> _Oddities of Restaurant Talk._
> ...
> "Mutton broth in a hurry," says the customer. "Baa-baa in the rain!
> Make  him
> run!" shouts the waiter.
> ...
> "Beefsteak and onions," says the customer.
> ...
> "John Bull! Make him a ginny!" shouts the waiter.
> ...
> "Where's my baked potatoes?" asks a customer.
> ...
> "Mrs. Murphy in a sealskin coat!" shouts the waiter.
> ...
> "Two fried eggs. Don't fry 'em too hard," says a customer.
> ...
> "Adam and Eve in the garden! Leave their eyes open!" shouts the
> waiter....
> "Poached eggs on toast," says the customer.
> ...
> "Bride and groom on a raft in the middle of the ocean!" shouts the
> waiter....
> "Chicken croquets," says the customer.
> ...
> "Fowl ball!" shouts the waiter.
> ...
> "Hash," says the customer. "Gentleman wants to take a chance!"
> shouts the
> waiter.
> ...
> "I'll have hash, too," says the next customer.
> ...
> "Another sport!" shouts the waiter.
> ...
> "Glass of milk," says the customer.
> ...
> "Let it rain," shouts the waiter.
> ...
> "Frankfurter and sauerkraut, good and hot," says the customer.
> ...
> "Fido, Shep and a bale of hay," shouts the waiter, "and let 'em
> sizzle!"
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