Date:  Tue, 14 May 1996 12:20:25 -0600

From:  Samuel Jones <smjones1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>

Subject: Re: "Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...,"



>Is anyone else familiar with the above phrase?

>



Miz O'Neill, ma'am,



YUP!



>In my universe, it is fairly popular.



MAHN, TOO! 'N HAS BEEN FER YERS 'N YERS.



>But I've been trying, to no avail,

>to trace its evolution and locate its origin.

>



AH SUSpect HOLLYWOOD WRITERS, MA'AM.



>Can anyone provide me with information

>on the earliest citation of the above phrase?

>



Don' rightly know. Ma'am, eff'n this be THUH "earliest," but



Ah 'stinctly 'member this pertikuhler phrase appurring awun



the motion picture THEater screen, in mah liddle ole Oklahoma



town, adurin' them-there rousin' (now-vintage), 13-week-long,



Saturday-mornin', cowboy-shoot-'em-up serials, in which



the hero always wore uh white haejuht, 'n rode a white horse,



uh palomino, or jes' maybe uhn Appaloosa. Yee HAH!!





>Thanks, cowboys and cowgirls. =ȧ

>



Right tole'ble proud tuh be uv hep, ma'am.



samjones



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