[Ads-l] Semper Gumby

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Always flexible."

55,000 raw Googles. You can buy "Semper Gumby" patches to update your
wardrobe.

Reported as a Navy term on CNN today, but as a Marine Corps item in
Newsweek in 1991.

GB alleges an ex. in a Gumby book in 1986, but no snippet is available.

Cf. "Semper Fidelis" or (perh. closer) "Semper Paratus."


JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org