"my first rodeo" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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5 Mar 1983 Fredericksburg VA _Free Lance-Star_ p 7 col 4
[NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip quoted] " "But this ain't my first
rodeo," he cracked."

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> Garson O'Toole
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> Barry Popik has a webpage about the phrase "This ain't my first
> rodeo", and he mentioned it on the AD list in 2006. The earliest cite
> given is the 1990 country song that Jon also mentioned:
>
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http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/this_aint_my_first_rodeo
2/
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> In 1988 a biography by Bob Millard titled "The Judds: A Biography"
> about the country music duo consisting of Naomi and Wynonna Judd was
> published. The mother Naomi is quoted using the expression:
>
> Cite: 1988, The Judds: A Biography by Bob Millard, [Copyright 1988 Bob
> Millard], Page number not shown in GB database, A Dolphin Book:
> Doubleday: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, New York. (Google Books
> preview)
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=Ad-iz7se16kC&q=clowns#v=snippet&
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> Naomi is not a shy woman; she has never claimed to be.
> "I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and I've seen the clowns,"
> as she put it "This ain't my first rodeo."
> <End excerpt>
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> In 1989 the expression was used by a football coach at Southern
> University named Gerald Kimble.
>
> Cite: 1989 July 30, Mobile [Press] Register, SWAC coaches pick Jackson
> State once again, [Associated Press], Page 5-C, Column 1, Mobile,
> Alabama. (GenealogyBank)
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> Kimble noted that he may be in his first SWAC job but that at 47 he's
> no beginner. He once served as an assistant coach at Southern and was
> a successful high school coach.
> "This is not my first rodeo," he said. "I've been on a horse before.
> We'll be exciting. We'll throw the ball around a little bit. ..."
> <End excerpt>
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> Garson
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Laurence Horn
<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> > ...and a nice addition to the catalogue of negative polarity items,
given
> the unlikelihood of the relevant reading of its appearance in positive
> contexts like "Sorry, this is my first rodeo".  (Actually there are a
few
> positive first rodeos, but they're in the same ballpark as e.g. "Give
a
> damn!")
> >
> > LH
> >
> > On Sep 22, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >
> >> Several two-dimensional images on cable news lately, including Gov.
Perry,
> >> have used the phrase "This isn't/ain't my first rodeo."
> >>
> >> David Barnhart mentioned the expression here in 2006 after it was
uttered
> by
> >> G. W. Bush.
> >>
> >> That was the year YBQ appeared. Next edition, it should go in.
> >>
> >> JL
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