"Madder than a peach orchard boar" (Molly Ivins)

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've seen this in WWII novels - in print no later than mid fifties.

  JL

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Madder than a peach orchard boar? Any historical citations for this?
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Posted on Wed, Jan. 31, 2007

That was just Molly bein=E2=80=99 Molly
BY ANTHONY ZURCHER
Creators Syndicate
Molly Ivins is gone, and her words will never grace these pages again =E2=
=80=94 for =20
this, we will mourn. But Molly wasn=E2=80=99t the type of woman who would wa=
nt us to =20
grieve. More likely, she=E2=80=99d say something like, =E2=80=9CHang in ther=
e, keep fightin=E2=80=99=20
for freedom, raise more hell, and don=E2=80=99t forget to laugh, too.=E2=
=80=9D=20
If there was one thing Molly wanted us to understand, it=E2=80=99s that the=20=
world of =20
politics is absurd. We can=E2=80=99t cry, so we might as well laugh. And in=20=
case we=20
ever forgot, Molly would remind us several times a week in her own unique=20
style.=20
Shortly after becoming editor of her syndicated column, I learned that one o=
f=20
my most important jobs was to tell her newspaper clients that, yes, Molly=20
meant to write it that way. =20
We called her linguistic peculiarities =E2=80=9CMolly-isms.=E2=80=9D Adminis=
tration=20
officials were =E2=80=9CBushies=E2=80=9D; government was in fact spelled=20=
=E2=80=9Cguvment=E2=80=9D; business was =E2=80=9C
bidness.=E2=80=9D And if someone was =E2=80=9Cmadder than a peach orchard bo=
ar,=E2=80=9D well, he was=20
quite mad indeed.

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