[Ads-l] "Blow me" (was: Antedating of Jamboree)

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Also, “I’ll be blown” 

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> On 16 Feb 2018, at 09:45, Andy Bach <afbach at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Or, as I've often seen in fiction (though I can't remember any references
> to cite), generally set in the 17th or 18th century, "I'll be blowed!" I
> associate it with nautical settings.
> 
> I recall "Blow me for a <something>" (not an easy google ;-)  This is, I
> think, satire but:
> “Blow me for a landlubber if I like that!” he said, in a hardly audible
> whisper.  “And shiver my timbers if I don’t find out what she’s there for.
> If anybody thinks he can run an opposition line to mine on this river he’s
> mightily mistaken.  If it comes to competition, I can carry shades for
> nothing and still quaff the B. & G. yellow-label benzine three times a day
> without experiencing a financial panic.  I’ll show ’em a thing or two if
> they attempt to rival me.  And what a boat!  It looks for all the world
> like a Florentine barn on a canal-boat.”
> http://www.kellscraft.com/HouseBoatRiverStyx/HouseBoatRiverStyxCh01.html <http://www.kellscraft.com/HouseBoatRiverStyx/HouseBoatRiverStyxCh01.html>
> 
> I recall the "The Sword and the Stone" (Disney's take on "The once and
> future king" as a cartoon) Merlin cursing with "Blow me to Bermuda" which
> his magic then does.
> 
>>> “'What ails my Love?’ asked Glorianna, regarding his face for the first
>>> time; 'whence come these bruised cheeks, those bloody nose, this puffy
> lip
>>> and ensanguined mug? Blow me if I don’t think you’ve been on a
> jamboree!'”
> 
>> "those nose" ?
> 
> Don't look at me, ask Glorianna.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com <mailto:thnidu at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Or, as I've often seen in fiction (though I can't remember any references
>> to cite), generally set in the 17th or 18th century, "I'll be blowed!" I
>> associate it with nautical settings.
>> 
>> (Also noting the condiments for beets; thanks, Wilson.)
>> 
>> Andy: "*those* bloody nose"?
>> 
>> Mark, not a sailor
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 15, 2018 4:16 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Blow me
>> 
>> Back in the '70's, I knew an Englishwoman who used this as her common
>> exclamation.
>> 
>>> vinegar on beets makes them fine to eat
>> 
>> That's true, it does, though, in my family, onion slices were sometimes
>> included in the recipe.
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Huh.  While I'd guess:
>>> “'What ails my Love?’ asked Glorianna, regarding his face for the first
>>> time; 'whence come these bruised cheeks, those bloody nose, this puffy
>> lip
>>> and ensanguined mug? Blow me if I don’t think you’ve been on a
>> jamboree!'”
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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