awesome sauce!

[Jonathan Lighter]

As UD observes, Strong Bad's "Awesome Sauce" is an industrial product.

JL


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Christopher Philippo <toff at mac.com> wrote:

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> On May 11, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >> 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
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/alt.tv.kids-in-hall/iJ0KiwzBtpU/4FbTKzjLkdQJ
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> > This example is the first cite given in the Summer 2011 "Among the New
> > Words" (linked upthread): http://bit.ly/ATNW86-2
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> Of course the professionals found that cite first!  It’s at
> http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/awesome_saucetoo.  My weaksauce (which I see in that article has older cites than
> awesomesauce - one of which suggested “awesome” had gone out of style).
>  Incidentally, searching by date in Google Groups used to be easy - what
> happened?
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> Barry Popik related speculation by wiktionary and urbandictionary users
> that “awesome sauce” came from the character Strong Bad in the Flash series
> Homestar Runner.  Possible, though the oldest use of “awesome sauce” in HR
> http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Awesome given on the HR Wiki is from 2003:
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> "STRONG BAD: {to The Cheat} Well, aren't you gonna go get your 409 or
> Awesome Sauce or whatever you're gonna clean this up with?" Strong Bad
> Email #75. June 2, 2003. http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/funny
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> That’s not to say there might not have been an earlier use by SB, but
> fannish wikis might tend to be right about such trivia.  SB could perhaps
> have helped popularize it to some extent.
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> San souci,
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> CKP
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