Comments on: Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Post-traumatic Snowclone Disorder: A Formula for the Favre Retirements, Foreign Policies, and Sea Monkeys We Can’t Get Over : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-147074 Post-traumatic Snowclone Disorder: A Formula for the Favre Retirements, Foreign Policies, and Sea Monkeys We Can’t Get Over : OUPblog Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:31:11 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/#comment-147074 [...] looking for, whatever Xs your Y, and I for one welcome our new X overlords. Ben Zimmer discussed snowclones in this [...] [...] looking for, whatever Xs your Y, and I for one welcome our new X overlords. Ben Zimmer discussed snowclones in this [...]

]]> By: X 2: Electric Boogaloo « The Snowclones Database http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-146803 X 2: Electric Boogaloo « The Snowclones Database Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:29:07 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/#comment-146803 [...] in general–on the Oxford University Press Blog in his “From A to Zimmer” feature last August. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)To X or not to [...] [...] in general–on the Oxford University Press Blog in his “From A to Zimmer” feature last August. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)To X or not to [...]

]]> By: gl http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-145605 gl Tue, 06 May 2008 17:35:24 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/#comment-145605 A friend of mine INSISTS that he is the VERY FIRST person to coin and use the phrase "[MOVIE TITLE] II: Electric Boogaloo" in 1984 (the year the movie came out) to spoof movie titles. Any way to prove or disprove? What's the earliest use you know of not referring to the movie itself, but as a riff based on the movie title? gl A friend of mine INSISTS that he is the VERY FIRST person to coin and use the phrase “[MOVIE TITLE] II: Electric Boogaloo” in 1984 (the year the movie came out) to spoof movie titles. Any way to prove or disprove? What’s the earliest use you know of not referring to the movie itself, but as a riff based on the movie title?

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]]> By: Tharchin http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-26441 Tharchin Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:27:59 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/#comment-26441 Could the "X from hell" snowclone have anything to do with the widely published "From Hell" letter, supposedly sent by Jack the Ripper on October 15th, 1888 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter). There's no X there, but the phrase certainly sticks in the mind. Could the “X from hell” snowclone have anything to do with the widely published “From Hell” letter, supposedly sent by Jack the Ripper on October 15th, 1888 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter). There’s no X there, but the phrase certainly sticks in the mind.

]]> By: Fred R. Shapiro http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-26149 Fred R. Shapiro Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:26:41 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/#comment-26149 I enjoyed your "Electric Boogaloo." Note that Richard Lewis, who says that "I'm completely in heaven" at being credited by the Yale Book of Quoations with the "from hell" idiom, explains in an e-mail to me that "From as early as the late 1970's I used this phrase and it became huge after Letterman got his talk show in 1982 where I appeared constantly and used the phrase...as I did on all shows and on stage." I enjoyed your “Electric Boogaloo.” Note that Richard Lewis, who says that “I’m completely in heaven” at being credited by the Yale Book of Quoations with the “from hell” idiom, explains in an e-mail to me that “From as early as the late 1970’s I used this phrase and it became huge after Letterman got his talk show in 1982 where I appeared constantly and used the phrase…as I did on all shows and on stage.”

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