"I said to myself, 'Self...'" in "Moose Turd Pie"

[Sam Clements]

I, too, seem to remember Wilson using the phrase, but it would have to have
been from his tv show, 1970-74.

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Zimmer" <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: "I said to myself, 'Self...'" in "Moose Turd Pie"


> On 1/26/06, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The late, great Clerow Wilson Honey, AKA "Flip Wilson," was using this
>> as a cathch phrase in the '60's.
>>
>> Cf.
>>
>> 1964. Pot Luck; Scepter Records SRM/SPS-520
>>
>> or the perhaps more-easily found
>>
>> 1968. Cowboys and Colored People; Atlantic Records AT 8149
>>
>> 1968. You Devil, You!; Atlantic Records AT 8179
>
> Wilson, I just listened to two or three hours' worth of Flip Wilson
> routines from his '60s recordings (everything I could find via
> file-sharing networks). Very entertaining, but not one example of
> "Self"-address. Is there a particular routine in which you remember
> him using the expression?
>
> A few people suggested Bill Cosby used it in his standup act in the
> '60s, but I came up empty when I checked his recordings too.
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
>
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