[Ads-l] awesome sauce!

[Jonathan Lighter]

This weekend  I heard a Chicago lawyer - female, age 50 - exclaim "Lame
sauce!"

Probably this was a fairly recent acquisition.

JL


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>
wrote:

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> 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."
> >
> > Derived from  (or a simply a misheard) "Suss this sauce out"?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >> 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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