FW they're W
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 31 22:55:00 UTC 2007
Gonzo - HDAS: 1977.
Gonzo, by James Booker, Duke label recording, 1960.
Goon-child - HDAS: no cites bet. 1943 and 1975.
At some time between 1950(?) and 1955, in the original Mad Magazine,
Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD, there appeared a story entitled
"Goon(-)Child," in which an evil, lazy bastard of a mad scientist
builds an anthropoid robot to handle all of his scut work. He names
this robot "Goon(-)Child." Unfortunately, the mad scientist has built
better than he realizes and Goon(-)Child becomes self-aware. It then
takes over, making the mad scientist the slave and demanding that,
from that moment on, he address it as "MISTER Goon(-)Child!"
-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
-Sam'l Clemens
------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
More information about the Ads-l
mailing list