Aw, naw he di?n'!

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 15 15:35:55 UTC 2010


And here I thought the normal cover was "She's a BADm at th@..."

On a different note, do the usual databases cover "Hubba-hubba!"? And
has its meaning evolved over the years?

I have a 1934 cartoon that uses the expression quite innocuously.

     VS-)

On 11/14/2010 3:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> A white male character in a commercial says,
>
> "She's a  _bad momma-jomma_!"
>
>
> I don't know for certain how old the expression _bad momma-jomma_ is -
> perhaps it goes back to the Roaring 'Twenties - but, whatever, it has
> never ceased to be a cover for
>
> "bad motherfucker!"
>
> Well, all that I can say is,
>
> "Keep on keepin' on tappin' that ass!"
> --
> -Wilson

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