Word: mah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin'!"). In the mid '30s De Beck abandoned Spark Plug, subordinated Barney, brought bodacious Hillbilly Snuffy Smith (also a slangy shorty) to the fore...
...Heah go mah firs' bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee-BOOM! Go ahead...
...Listen to mah motor roar. Gr-r-row-owow! Now heah go another bomb. Whoo-oo-ee-ee-ee BOOM! Go ahead...
...Listen to Mah Motor...
...Minnesota parties in Leverett or Lowell. They serve themselves drinks which taste like a cross between Minneapolis grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...