A new use of "duh?"

[Wilson Gray]

You can't catch me every time, Lar. I mea-culpa'd and made the necessary
correction several hours ago. Nah nah nah nah naah nah! ;-)

-Wilson

On 3/6/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: A new use of "duh?"
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> At 7:10 PM -0500 3/5/06, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >The passage of time probably explains everything. No shit (Sherlock) / no
> >shit (Shinola) dates to the late '40's - early '50's in speech. That it
> >should have precisely the same meaning a half-century later is not to be
> >expected.
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> Interesting.  I'm familiar with the former of these (which would of
> course be transparent in any case, even if I can't quite picture Dr.
> Watson muttering the line) but not the latter, but on the other hand
> that's the very same old Shinola (brown shoe polish) that shoes...er,
> shows up elsewhere in the classic "X can't tell shit from Shinola",
> one of my favorite entries in the ass v. hole-in-the-ground
> indiscriminabilia sweepstakes.
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> Larry
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