awesome sauce!

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Christopher Philippo wrote:
>
> On May 11, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> UrbanDictionary gives two examples (2005, 2006) and a couple of odd clones
>> like "awesome sauce banana peel!"
>
> Good gravy!  I would have thought "awesome sauce" ten or fifteen years older than
> that, but the oldest sauciers I can find posting on usenet aren't quite that far back:
>
>> you guys are awesomesauce.
> carmelita cortez. "Re: Shadowy men in a taco bell ad!"
> alt.tv.kids-in-hall September 22, 2001 4:12:54 PM UTC-4
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.tv.kids-in-hall/iJ0KiwzBtpU/4FbTKzjLkdQJ

This example is the first cite given in the Summer 2011 "Among the New
Words" (linked upthread): http://bit.ly/ATNW86-2

--bgz

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