"stuck on stupid"

[Doug Harris]

Bill Engvall = 'here's your sign'


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From: "Darla Wells" <lethe9 at GMAIL.COM>
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Received: 5/29/2009 1:49:00 PM
Subject: Re: "stuck on stupid"


>No real evidence but it sounds like something Larry the Cable Guy or one of
>his friends would say. I am thinking of the guy who says "Here's your sign,"
>but can't remember his name. Anyway, they are all usually on the Comedy
>Channel with Jeff Foxworthy.
>Darla Wells

>2009/5/29 Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>

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>> On May 29, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
>> >
>> > There are nearly a zillion raw googlits for this phrase, which I
>> > only recall
>> > hearing within the past five years.
>> >
>> > The earliest ex. I can find is typical:
>> >
>> > 1995 Usenet: news.users.question (Dec. 31): And if I am stuck on
>> > stupid
>> > that's ok it's not all that bad but is unhandy and you did waste
>> > your time
>> > reading this. Happy 1996 to all.
>> >
>> > You know, like a gauge of some kind. A brain gauge.
>>
>> there's a Stuck on Stupid webpage (stuckon-stupid.com), which says
>> it's about "Exposing the low wattage of the liberal mindset".
>>
>> Google Books has a pile of books with this expression in it from 2000
>> on, but only two before that year (1998 and 1992).  the 1992 item is
>> Kevin Coyne's A Day in the Night of America, and the cite is on p. 280).
>>
>> so it seems to be genuinely recent.
>>
>> it has the feel of a catchphrase that started as a quotation.  anyone
>> have evidence on the matter?
>>
>> arnold
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