Sayings of Charlie Morris
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"Charlie-isms" |
Interpretation |
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| Related to Businesses in general | ||
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1 |
Generous Motors | General Motors |
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2 |
Radio Shaft | Radio Shack |
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3 |
Squat 'n Gobble | Fast food place, e.g. McDonald's |
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4 |
Stop 'n Rob |
24-hour
convenience story (yes, Charlie could be irreverent, but that was part of his charm!) |
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5 |
Home Despot | Home Depot |
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6 |
General Morons & Generic Motors | General Motors |
| Related to Funeral Business | ||
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7 |
Body shop | funeral home |
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8 |
Fun house | FUNeral home |
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9 |
Marble orchard | cemetery |
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10 |
Rock garden | cemetery |
| People | ||
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11 |
Rug rats | Little kids |
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12 |
Yuppie larva | Yuppie's rug rats |
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13 |
Vampire | phlebotomist |
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14 |
Calhoun |
an attorney,
as in Algonquin J. Calhoun, the attorney on Amos 'n Andy |
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15 |
Cathaholic | Catholic |
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16 |
Whiskeypalian. :) | Episcopalian |
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17 |
Ring knockers - Masons | Masons |
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18 |
The Chef | his mom |
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| Places | ||
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19 |
Swamp | His farm |
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20 |
Cincinnapolis | Cincinnati |
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21 |
Indian-no-place | Indianapolis |
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22 |
Jelly Springs | Yellow Springs |
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23 |
Cleve-LAND | Cleveland |
| Things | ||
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24 |
"The Benz" |
Whichever of
his Mercedes-Benz's he was driving that day |
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25 |
"Mr. Bitchy" | Mitsubishi |
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26 |
turk | Truck |
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27 |
Penguin suit | Tuxedo |
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| Arizona related | ||
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28 |
Ezrazona | Arizona (where he visited every winter) |
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29 |
"Time to spare, go by air" | A favorite saying when traveling |
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30 |
Silver tube | Airplane |
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31 |
Goin' to do my "Cactus Count" |
His annual
visit to Ron & Dee, his friends in Phoenix |
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32 |
Cactapus Road | Cactus Road in Phoenix |
| Expressions | ||
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33 |
Well now, isn't that spa-a-a-a-shul! |
This comes
from "The Church Lady" on Saturday Night Live |
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34 |
Zero dark 30 | Anytime in the wee hours of the morning |
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35 |
Five-dark-thirty | The hour he had to arise for work |
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36 |
Sheeeiiiiittt fire! | |
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37 |
No Shit Sherlock! | |
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38 |
Snootful | When he had a cold |
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39 |
"You Guessed Her Chester!" | |
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40 |
"Who gives a fat rats ass!" | |
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41 |
"Have a day" |
Dee
Hutt added, "And don’t tell him what kind of day to have!" |
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42 |
Coinkidink | Coincidence |
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| Actions | ||
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43 |
Give me a call on the box | Call him on the ham radio |
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44 |
Fire up the oil burner | Start the car (diesel, of course) |
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45 |
Scrape down and hose off | Shave and shower |
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46 |
Getting horizontal | Going to bed |
| Agriculture related | ||
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47 |
Shit kickin' school |
OSU's Agriculture School (where he spent his first year of college) |
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48 |
Alpha Grabba Hoe | Agricultural fraternity |