[Ads-l] call BS

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

I’ve been hearing it for a long time.

Here's one from possibly 1989, usual caveats.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Surfer/ae21AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22will+call+BS+on%22&dq=%22will+call+BS+on%22&printsec=frontcover



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From "Ben Zimmer" <00001aae0710f4b7-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 28/09/2025 20:21:37
Subject Re: call BS

>The Usenet archive has "call B.S. on" from 1992.
>
>---
>Brett Chapman, Mar. 16, 1992, "ACC tournament quote,"
>rec.sport.basketball.college
>I called B.S. on this statement at the time and I think numerous quotes by
>the Dook basketball team itself since then have supported me.
>https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.basketball.college/c/OyWxQqfOD-Y/m/AgEiWkXj4WAJ
>---
>cloister bell, May 1, 1992, "Live at the Witch Trials,"
>alt.sexual.abuse.recovery
>i'm afraid i have to call b.s. on this one.
>https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sexual.abuse.recovery/c/4gNqqkS7VlU/m/GrWMh3UV_LUJ
>---
>
>The unexpurgated "I call bullshit on that" can be found several times in
>Lenny Dykstra's 1987 baseball memoir _Nails: The Inside Story of an Amazin'
>Season_.
>https://archive.org/details/nailsinsidestory0000dyks/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22call+bullshit+on%22
>
>--bgz
>
>On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM Jonathan Lighter <
>00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
>>  I first heard this in 2017. Now I hear it almost daily.
>>
>>  2002 Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, Ia.) (Apr. 17) 4A [Newspapers.com]: I
>>  call B.S. on all of that.
>>
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