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Subject: 
Doh! Was Re: boulders on shoulders
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Date: 
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:00:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:

Doh!

That's a recognized English word now.  I wish I were still in college so I
could use it in a paper!

The semester after I got my M.A. in English our comp exams were made available
for everyone to view (no names!).  As I looked through them I noticed one
professor wrote "Duh!"(1) in the margin to comment on what someone had written
(no, it wasn't my paper!).

Maggie C.

(1) variant form



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  Re: Doh!
 
(...) I'm not sure "Duh" is a variant form of "Doh" (or verse-vica, vice-versey, victor-victoria). I've heard Homer say "Duuuuu-uh!" before, and the context is decidedly different. Doh attends misfortune (usually as an exaggeration, as when someone (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: boulders on shoulders
 
(...) That's a recognized English word now. I wish I were still in college so I could use it in a paper! Dave! (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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