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  2. Suffering succotash - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

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    The phrase Suffering Succotash replaced “Suffering Savior.”. Today the latter phrase is known only as an expression of annoyance and surprise by animated cartoon characters such as Sylvester the Cat and Daffy Duck. Was the expression still in vogue when the Looney Tunes cartoons were made, or did the cartoons resurrect an expression that ...

  3. Profanitype works but sounds and looks too much like stereotype, even though "-type" is supposed to relate to typewriting. Zairja has the answer (s): Bleep is not a name for !@#$%^&* but rather a spoken equivalent of it, as is blankety-blank (my substantive contribution to this thread). The winner, so far: Obscenicon.

  4. 2. "Toon" for your game characters absolutely started in The Realm Online. It was one of the earliest graphical MMORPGs out, the characters actually looked like cartoons and people there called them "toons" because of that. Sadly it carried on to other games out of habit.

  5. Edit: Another Wikipedia page:. The big Z. It is a convention in American comics that the sound of a snore can be reduced to a single letter Z.

  6. Correct usage of replacing cuss words with symbols

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/36938

    I've noticed that symbols (i.e. #, $, %, !, *, etc.) are commonly used to filter profanity/foul language. Just out of curiosity, is there a specific way to do

  7. What are all of Sonic the Hedgehog's transformations? - Arqade

    gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/234184/what-are-all-of...

    Excalibur Sonic (Ekusukaribā Sonikku), also written as Excalibur-Sonic, is one of Sonic the Hedgehog's transformations, appearing in Sonic and the Black Knight. Sonic assumed this form by the power of the transformed Caliburn and the three sacred swords. He is playable in the final battle against the Dark Queen, an enhanced form of Merlina the ...

  8. Origin of the expression "pull your finger out"

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/186931/origin-of-the...

    All this rubbish about cannons and early 60s cartoon characters is puritanical avoidance of issue and use of euphemistic metaphors. The shock value of the use of this term socially or publicly where use is by celebrties or royalty (e.g the late Prince Phillip) is precisely because it is derived from and refers to an explicitly intimate scene.

  9. The meaning and the origins of "everything's gone pear-shaped."

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/30948

    The OED entry (updated March 2003) for pear-shaped, adj. (paywalled), defines sense 3 as . colloquial (chiefly British, orig. R.A.F. slang).

  10. etymology - Origin of Doobie (joint, marijuana cigarette) -...

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    In fact, all the main characters in Scooby-Do were modeled on Dobie Gillis characters. Given that it was such a straight homage, if you were to try to argue a drug use subtext in the character design, you'd have to argue it from the original work. But there its generally assumed Krebs was just created originally as a generic beatnik. While drug ...

  11. Where did the phrase "batsh*t crazy" come from?

    english.stackexchange.com/questions/38354

    From an inexplicably deleted answer is a 1983 cartoon by P. S. Mueller (the voice of Onion News Radio) captioned: Full blown batshit crazy and still holding down a productive job. Mueller adds: Since I first published this cartoon around 25 years ago, I have received more correspondence about it than anything I have done before or since.