awesome sauce!

[Paul Johnston]

Could be. Hard to tell with this guy.
On May 11, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:

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> At 5/11/2014 09:08 AM, Paul Johnston wrote:
>> There was a guy I knew in 1975 at U. of Michigan who was kind of an
>> ultimate Angeleno. who said "Yo tengo a la sauce!" whenever he liked
>> something a lot, and "Check this sauce out." (And sometimes, "Sauce
>> this sauce out." meaning "Check it out."
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> Derived from  (or a simply a misheard) "Suss this sauce out"?
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> Joel
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>> His usual greeting to people was "What's your story?"
>>
>> By the time we finished one semester with him in the same house, we
>> had a whole dictionary worth of "Ronisms".
>>
>> Paul Johnston
>> On May 11, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> OK, there's like this girl on TV? And she's advertising the same bank that
>>> offers either frog protection or fraud protection depending on which guy
>>> you believe? So she's so happy with the promised service that she shouts,
>>> "Awesome sauce!" and the girl on the other end of the phone says there's
>>> only one other person on the planet who uses that expression!  So they
>>> recognize each other.
>>>
>>> This ad has been running for months, exposing millions to the inanity that
>>> is "awesome sauce!"
>>>
>>> UrbanDictionary gives two examples (2005, 2006) and a couple of odd clones
>>> like "awesome sauce banana peel!"
>>>
>>> You can buy T-shirts too.
>>>
>>> Antonyms include "weak sauce"  and "lame sauce," acc. to Online Slang
>>> Dictionary.
>>>
>>> The incredibly large-scale map provided by OSD (not OED) shows,
>>> astonishingly, that "awesome sauce!" is used in only one place on earth,
>>> near the town of Castlegar, British Columbia, which is north of Trail.
>>>
>>> JL
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