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[Jonathan Lighter]

1938 _Virginia Qly. Review_  XIV 24 [GoogleBooks]: I'll kill you graveyard
dead.

1978 Ron Goulart  _The Wicked Cyborg_ (N.Y.: DAW Books) 140: I gonna kill
you , you ugly motherfuyer! Gonna kill you graveyard dead!

2004  Jobe Martin  _The Evolution of a Creationist_  (Rockwell, Tex.:
Biblical Discipleship Publishers) 146:   We Christians all believe in the
resurrection of the dead. Do any science textbooks teach that humans can be
graveyard dead, and then resurrected back to life?

2025
 https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/06/12/graveyard-dead-florida-warns-ice-protesters-of-lethal-response/84165287007/
<https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2025/06/12/graveyard-dead-florida-warns-ice-protesters-of-lethal-response/84165287007/>
Brevard County Sherriff Wayne Ivey add, "If you throw a brick, a fire bomb,
or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family
where to collect your remains, because we will kill you, graveyard dead. "

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

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