Youneverknow II

[Wilson Gray]

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Write Me a Few of Your Lines: A Blues Reader - Page 453
Steven Carl Tracy, editor - 1999 - 603 pages - Google eBook - Preview

...  the expression, _"I'm so pushed"_ is used interchangeably with
_"I'm hipped" [sic]_.


WTF?!!! Those with long memories may recall my mention of a buddy in
Los Angeles, ca.1963, who tried to introduce the phrase, "I'm so
pushed," to the bruz & cuz as a replacement for "I'm hip," with no
success at all. My impression at the the time was that he had made up
the expression himself. I hadn't heard it before, I haven't heard it
since, I haven't heard it used by anyone else, and finding even a
single instance of it in print messes with my mind..

And, of course, this cite from nearly forty years later hardly
precludes the assumption that this former buddy *did* make it up.
After all,

Youneverknow.
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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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