The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158959   Message #3763689
Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Jan-16 - 06:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Words you thought you had made up
Subject: RE: BS: Words you thought you had made up
Two things:
There's that, and then I used to say "for-get you!" as my ultimate form of dismissal of somebody who wasn't making sense. My fellow camp counselor Joe McCarthy (descendant of Tailgunner Joe) worked for Teddy Kennedy as an intern, and Teddy heard Joe use my phrase. Teddy liked it, and asked Joe where he got it. If Teddy had started using the phrase, I might have been famous.

And my mother had one: "Don't nervous the driver." She'd say that in the station wagon when her five kids were getting hyperactive.

-Joe-