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

[Jonathan Lighter]

See HDAS 1 for so much more.

JL

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Also, “I’ll be blown”
>
> https://books.google.ca/books?id=8rsYYx_2SWsC&pg=PA172&lpg=
> PA172&dq=%22i%27ll+be+blown%22&source=bl&ots=CAFNWCnLHl&sig=
> wu5DhtgoC61Cvj4z68wmfptE8Os&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizltmSj6vZAhXQzFMKHXI0C
> bQQ6AEITjAK#v=onepage&q=%22i'll%20be%20blown%22&f=false <
> https://books.google.ca/books?id=8rsYYx_2SWsC&pg=
> PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=%22i%27ll+be+blown%22&source=bl&ots=CAFNWCnLHl&sig=
> wu5DhtgoC61Cvj4z68wmfptE8Os&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizltmSj6vZAhXQzFMKHXI0C
> bQQ6AEITjAK#v=onepage&q="i'll be blown"&f=false>
>
> BB
>
> > 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!'”
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > a
> >
> > Andy Bach,
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