Heard on "Aqua Team Hunger Force"

[Wilson Gray]

Aaarrrggghhh! I didn't mean "Bundesbahn"! That's the railroad. I meant
"Autobahn."

-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.
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-Mark Twain





On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, the replacement of "cop a squat" by "pop ...," that seems more
> like an eggcorn." Or not, since the reference is to sitting anywhere
> other than in a chair. Whereas, for me, "cop ..." is to sit anywhere,
> but primarily in / on a chair. Â You never know.
>
> For me, to "cop ..." refers to taking a seat anywhere, but primarily
> in / on a chair. Down home, the sight of a woman squatting, more or
> less in public, behind a bush or, in Germany, at least into the
> '60's, of women squatting alongside the Autobahn, in order to
> eliminate bodily wastes, the use of "cop a squat" relevant to this
> meaning had never occurred to me. Yet, it's so obvious.
>
> WRT to the Autobahn, males merely stood with their backs to the flow
> of traffic, though there probably were occasons when a male, too, had
> to cop a squat Karler Art.
>
> -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.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Chris Blankenship
> <c.n.blankenship at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In the late 80s early 90s near Nashville, I knew several people who
>> used the phrase "pop a squat" to indicate sitting somewhere other than
>> in a chair. A toilet might have applied in this case. Seems like a
>> logical step.
>>
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>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at missouri.edu> wrote:
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>>> Wilson's subject line is nicely eggcorny. The show is _Aqua TEEN Hunger
>>> Force_ but the characters act as a team. Well, not really, but it's the part
>>> of the premise that they're a team of detectives.
>>>
>>> Google shows that Wilson is not alone is his reanalysis.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/14/09 12:31 AM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Carl," a white, animated-cartoon character says:
>>>>
>>>> "I gotta _cop a squat_"
>>>>
>>>> and literally squats behind a bush in order to  _take a dump_.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've known "cop a squat" in BE with the meaning, "have a seat," since
>>>> ca.1955. Â I heard it used, once, with that same meaning by a white
>>>> person, to wit: Richard Belzer, in an episode of Homicide : Life on
>>>> the Street, ca.1998.
>>>>
>>>> This is the first time that I've heard it used with a different meaning.
>>>>
>>>> -Wilson
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