"Don't get mad! Get Glad!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but if everybody jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?

JL

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Jon, that's because "talking to you is like talking to a wall!" ;-)
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> 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.
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> Youneverknow.
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> BTW, I'm also far more familiar than I'd like to be with,
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> "Use your head for something besides a hatrack!"
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> -Wilson
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> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > I've never heard that parentism.
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> > JL
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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,
> >>
> >> "If you're getting mad, you'd better get glad!"
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> >> like unto
> >>
> >> "Don't make me come ...!"
> >>
> >> "Your head is hard as as a rock!"
> >>
> >> "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;
> >>
> >> -Wilson
> >> =96=96=96
> >> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=96=96a strange complaint
> t=
> > o
> >> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> >> =96Mark Twain
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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.
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