Bullcorn

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 31 22:29:31 UTC 2006


Just heard this used on That '70s Show as an obvious euphemism for
"bullshit." I've personally known this as a euphemism for "bullcome,"
the local equivalent of "bullshit" used in East Texas BE, since I was
about ten years old. I also heard stories of the use of "bullcorn" by
their Southern relatives from, e.g. Alabama, from friends in Los
Angeles during the 'Sixties.

-Wilson
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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