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([[Roger Price]]:[[Hoffwoman]]) In [[Roger Price|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. | ([[Roger Price]]:[[Hoffwoman]]) In [[Roger Price|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. | ||
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| + | "'''I had one once, but the wheels fell off,'''" a [[fannish]] riff on the [[Avoidism|Avoidist]] [[catchphrase]], became an even more popular [[interlineation]]. | ||
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| 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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