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Great Googly Moogly Minicast - 17 June 2009

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

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🗓️ 17 June 2009

⏱️ 8 minutes

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'Great Googly Moogly!' A caller wonders where that exclamation comes from. Here's the Snickers commercial that includes the phrase. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSAXLayoMKI -- Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Site: http://waywordradio.org. Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Great googly moogly! Ever heard that one? Great Googly Moogly!

0:53.0

Ever heard that one?

0:55.0

Jerry from Baltimore called to say he'd heard it during the 1970s when he was in the military.

1:00.0

After that, he didn't run into it again for years.

1:03.0

Then earlier this year he noticed it popping up everywhere.

1:08.0

Curious, Jerry did a lot of research on the internet,

1:11.0

but he still wasn't satisfied. So he called us.

1:15.0

I ran into it on a discussion board for owners of a particular sailboat and somebody mentioned

1:22.4

it like great googly moogly do you believe

1:24.6

the price of that and i noticed that and i said gee i haven't heard that for a

1:29.3

while and then i heard it in conversation somewhere else and then American Express started running reprises of their old commercials and there's Jerry Seinfeld dressed as a cricket player getting brushed back by a pitch and he says that was a

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