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What is the source of this expression?

Option	Votes
An old baseball expression, perhaps used in a Looney Tune or two and in fact still in use	10
The Goonies	2
High Anxiety	2

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago)

is this an age/cultural literacy Rorschach test?

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

Baseball, probably used in a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.

― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

Looney Tunes

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago)

Why are there two of these threads, and can I delete one of them?

― Antonio Carlos Broheem (WmC), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago)

Please delete other one, sorry, itchy posting finger posted twice.

If Looney Tunes, if Foghorn Leghorn, which actual cartoon?

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago)

is this an age/cultural literacy Rorschach test?

Ha. Yes, sort of.

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago)

Also a pushback against intranetz google hits blind spot

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago)

I only remember it from High Anxiety, being repeated about 450 times. And funnier every time.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 13 October 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago)

it goes at least as far back as Looney Tunes i'm certain

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:50 (thirteen years ago)

Hm, it was in this Looney Tune, but the punchline was different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Bugs

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:55 (thirteen years ago)

yeah i just found that. maybe the title version is as recent as High Anxiety then, but i find it hard to believe

(Bugs version on the 4'50" mark)

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 14 October 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago)

Now we'll never know.

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 19 October 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

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