I Had One Grunch But the Eggplant Over There
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A popular lino.
From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
(Roger Price:Hoffwoman) In Price's In One Head And Out The Other, the bible of Avoidism, his character Clayton Slope "had a clever trick of saying any conceivable sentence so that it sounded like 'I had one grunch but the eggplant over there'". Fans find the expression useful, too. |
"I had one once, but the wheels fell off," a fannish riff on the Avoidist catchphrase, became an even more popular interlineation.
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This is a fanspeak page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was coined, whether it’s still in use, etc. |