"Thanks! I Needed That!"

[Karl Hagen]

Check that. The High and the Mighty is from 1954.

On 8/21/2010 4:09 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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> I haven't researched this, and don't recall seeing anyone else discuss it.  The earliest I see on ProQuest is Los Angeles Times, Sep 25, 1969, where a slap is not specifically mentioned but the context is analogous.  Like Jon, I imagine this is older than 1969.
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> Anybody know the source of this allusion?  Allegedly it appeared in an old
> movie, the context being that fear is turning one character into a jelly
> blob. The hero slaps him once or twice and he's back to normal.
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> I remember a TV commercial for God knows what (Aquavelva?) that used the
> phrase and the slap some forty years ago, but I'll swear I knew the allusion
> before that.
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> Google Books was of no help.
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> JL
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