"Don't get mad! Get Glad!"

[Wilson Gray]

Jon, that's because "talking to you is like talking to a wall!" ;-)

I'd considered the possibility that the "mad/glad" thing might be
peculiar ro Southern English. But I'm surprised that it may be
peculiar to Black English.

Youneverknow.

BTW, I'm also far more familiar than I'd like to be with,

"Use your head for something besides a hatrack!"

-Wilson

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've never heard that parentism.
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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Does anyone else understand this slogan as a trivial rewording of the
>> old parentism,
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>> "If you're getting mad, you'd better get glad!"
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>> like unto
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>> "Don't make me come ...!"
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>> "Your head is hard as as a rock!"
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>> "Can't we have anything nice around here?!"
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>> etc.
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>> My wife says that she knows the "glad" thing only as a commercial slogan.
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>> OTOH, I know the slogan as a disturbing reminder of a parentism often
>> followed up by an ear-boxing, if I failed to delete any indication of
>> anger - or even of mere annoyance - from my face quickly enough;
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>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint t=
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>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> =96Mark Twain
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-Wilson
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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

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