[Ads-l] "graveyard dead"

[Jonathan Lighter]

1904 _ Orange [Tex.] Daily Tribune_ (Sept. 8) 1 [Newspapers.com] : The
murderer confessed, and said, "If she is graveyard dead, I's satisfied."

1924 _News-Democrat_ (Paducah, Ky.) (May 27) 8 [Newspapers.com]: Sweet
Dreams Spray Kills Flies Graveyard Dead.

JL

On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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