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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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"
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Mitsubishi |
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26 |
turk |
Truck |
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27 |
Penguin suit |
Tuxedo |
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Arizona
related |
|
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 |
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Expressions |
|
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
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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 |
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Agriculture
related |
|
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 |