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Re: Doh!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:10:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > Duh imples disdain or the presence of Captain Obvious
> > on an exam paper, which is why I've occasionally put on a paper
> > (most notably when a student said "Polish is the primary language
> > of Poland." Well, duh!). I think "Duh" is also a lot older,
> > at least 50 or 60 years.
> >
> > But I wonder where the genesis of "Doh" is. "Duh" comes from
> > a syllable attributed to the slow-witted, and is imitative in
> > its origin. Is "Doh!" really a complete Homerism?
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> I'm scrambling to find an online reference, but I read in the paper
> yesterday that "D'oh" in that form is indeed a Homerism (or, more correctly,
> a Castellaneta-ism), but it's a modification of "Do-o-o-o" used Laurel and
> Hardy films, where it was "an obvious euphemism for damn." Castellaneta
> himself supplies this reference in the article I read, but I'm still looking
> for a link to that specific quote.
It also shows up as a variant of the syllable "Do" as in "Do,
a deer..."
> By the way, I earned a "duh!" on one of my elementary school papers when I
> made the inciteful observation that "mountain gorillas live in the
"Inciteful?" Get thee to a .punnery! :)
> mountains, and lowland gorillas live in the lowlands." It's a wonder I'm
> not a primatologist!
You should grade college level history papers! Trust me, I'll
be gracing .o-t.fun with a hefty heaping of (anonymous) howlers
over the next few months, have no doubt. Of course, I think
I would have expected an "inciteful" paper to include some
off-color remark appended to "mountain [mountin'] gorillas",
indicating what they generally spend their time doing...and
unlike Fido romancing one's leg, this is much less easy to
avoid.
"Potatoe Famine: A time when the ground would not produce
potatoes." (One guy did go off on a much more interesting
rant about how much everyone liked potatoes but said nothing
about the whole famine angle...)
best
LFB
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