[Ads-l] "Every man a tiger!"

[Jonathan Lighter]

> Could any, etc.

A little genetic engineering, and the answer is yes.

JL

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 1:23 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> That's all very well, but on a contrary note, there is this immortal Auden
> haiku suggesting that maybe a tiger is not all that spiffy a thing to be:
>
> Could any tiger
>
> Drink martinis, smoke cigars,
>
> And last as we do?
>
> Happy Father's Day, TWIMC.
>
> LH
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:09 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Without the exclamation mark, this is the title of Tom Clancy's 1999 book
> > about the Air Force in the 1991 Gulf War.
> >
> > The phrase was used as a morale-boosting PR slogan by various units
> during
> > the Vietnam War. I hadn't seen it earlier.
> >
> > Until now:
> >
> > 1957 Louis Vittes & Endre Bohem _Monster from Green Hell_ (film): Every
> man
> > a tiger."
> >
> > 1955 _1955 Michiganensian_ (Ann Arbor: U. of Mich.) LIX 191: Every Man a
> > Tiger.
> >
> > 1953 _Air University Quarterly Review_ VI 109: Athletics: "Every Man a
> > Tiger."
> >
> > 1950 Roy Olin Stratton _SACO - The Rice-Paddy Navy._ (Pleasantville,
> N.Y.:
> > C. S. Palmer) 38 [ref. to WWII] :  It was in India that you first heard
> and
> > tried to memorize the SACO song EVERY MAN A TIGER, sung to the tune of
> that
> > grand old Navy song, THE ARMORED CRUISER SQUADRON.
> >
> > 1942 _Morning Chronicle_  (Manhattan, Kans.) (Jan. 10) 2: Manhattan
> Indians
> > Down Chapman By 46-33 Score  'Every Man a Tiger.'
> >
> > 1928 _Columbus [O.] Dispatch_ (Nov. 9) 6: The game! the game! Every man a
> > tiger for play....State boys must win the day!
> >
> > [1866 _Evening Bulletin_ (Providence, R.I.) (Oct. 24) 2 [ref. to 1842]:
> THE
> > TIGER SPEECH.--In a very charming sketch of Mr. [John] Whipple in the
> > _Post_ is some account of the famous "tiger speech," familiar to our
> elder
> > readers. We well remember it.... Let 'em come, said the orator, and when
> > they reach our doors, they shall find us, every man, a  _tiger in his
> den_.
> > The effect was electric.]
> > --
> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
> >
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