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"(Aye, aye, aye, aye) It's you, it's you."
Note that the Big U may have misheard the lyrics as two one-letter words: "I, I, I, I, it's U, it's U."
The Big U is from Wid's Daily, 1919.
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"By jings!" There are only 99 Google results for this Scottish exclamation. Note that it's doubled in this passage, as are two other phrases that follow. But of course there's an echo -- just look at the size of that room! From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett and illustrated by Charles S. Chapman, 1913.
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"I will call it Comsognathus Obtusidens Blinksis."
Ghost of the Victim: "Well! That's rough on me."
From Life, 1900
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We thought this mild oath, "Judas' cats," was one we'd somehow missed along the way, but a search indicates that it's extraordinarily rare. From the University of Western Ontario's 1930 yearbook.
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A word of caution: the Grim Reaper appears at the end of this:
"Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, and stars to set; but all, thou has all seasons for thine own, O Death."
From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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