Flying Fuck (1932)?

[Wilson Gray]

Because the censors would have let it pass?

-HWG

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 9/11/2008 09:31 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>>On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:10:54PM -0400, David Marc Fischer wrote:
>> > I finally saw the movie Scarface (1932) and noticed a line of dialogue
>> > that goes something like
>> >
>> > - They said you could take a flyin'...
>> > - Okay, okay.
>> >
>> > See the transcript at
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/scarface-script-transcript-paul-muni.html
>> >
>> > I figured I'd share this with all youse word sleuths out there.
>>
>>This quotation is already in HDAS, which has two earlier
>>examples of "take a flying...".
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> How do we know it isn't "... leap"?
>
> Joel
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