A new use of "duh?"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Just to clarify: "No, duh !" is interjectional and essentially means, "No, you idiot of the sort who probably says 'duh !' all the time because of your severe intellectual limitations !"

  Pithy.

  JL

"Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM> wrote:
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>From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7/1/1990: "As a Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtle might say, "No duh!""

I don't know if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actually
originated or popularized the phrase. TMNJ first appeared in a comic
book in 1984 and in a television cartoon in 1987.

An earlier but perhaps less enlightening use from Google Groups,
8/1/1988: "Model size set to Huge, Test Stack Overflow ON (no duh)"

John Baker

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