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[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "What the F-word is going on?" ("What the eff is going on?")
>
In an episode of The Family Guy, Huck Griffin addresses himself to
"N-word Jim," after getting yelled at by Jim for first addressing him
as, well, "N-word Jim."

> "What's-his-ass said so." Â ("What's-his-name." Â I heard this in 1975.)

("What's-his-face." I heard this in 1960, popularized by the same EM
who also introduced "How ADJ is that?!" and other catch-phrases.)

-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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