"Koo-Koo" for Cocoa Puffs?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> Wilson, Michael Moore writes about the out-of-touchness of the
> Republicans "Most Americans don't live there on Planet _Koo-Koo_".

Well, that's not the way that it was spelled During The War! ;-)

But, seriously, folks. It wouldn't surprise me to discover that there
are examples of exactly that spelling that date from the WWII era.
It's only onomatopoeia, after all.

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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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