[Ads-l] Yosemite Sam and "tarnation"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Yes!
DanG


On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 11:44 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> If not Walter Brennan, there's always Gabby Hayes. Hayes used "tarnation"
> in the 1938 movie "The Frontiersman":
>
> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030161/quotes/
> Windy Haliday: What in tarnation are you so fired head up about?
>
> --bgz
>
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 6:08 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would have expected a Walter Brennan character rather than a cartoon
> > parody of a Walter Brennan character.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 8, 2024, 4:05 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > > An exploration of _tarnation_, including the (apparently false) belief
> > > that it is in fact a characteristic exclamation of Yosemite Sam:
> > >
> > > https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-in-tarnation-is-tarnation
> > >
> >
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