"stuck on stupid" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Baker, John]

        Looks like Cathy Hughes was the original popularizer of the
term.  See also the early example cited at
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0609a&L=ads-l&D=1&P=37
07&F=P.


John Baker


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HASTINGS PITIED, BUT FEW AGREE CASE IS RACIAL - IN OFFICE Ft. Lauderdale
Sun-Sentinel - Monday, April 17, 1989 p. 1A
Author: By WILLIAM E. GIBSON, Washington Bureau Chief Washington
Correspondent Ken Cummins contributed to this report. [from Newsbank]

"Cathy Hughes, on her TV show, awarded Conyers one of her '' Stuck on
Stupid '' awards for what she termed ''insensitive, inhumane and
unnecessary persecution of Hastings.''"


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> 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.
>
> JL
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