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[lindafowens]

Hi, I was just at my grandson's house reading an old compendium of Calvin and Hobbes when I came across Spaceman Spiff's Mertilizer.  The only time I had heard the word "mertilize" was once when my mother threatened to mertilize us kids.  She's been dead a long time, but when alive she was normally such a pleasant person that I figured she wanted to murder us kids for something horrible we'd done, but really didn't want to murder us, so she made up the euphemism--or it just slipped out.  Anyone ever heard of it before?  The same cartoon strip had the word GRONK! as a sound--we used to call a rather schmoo-like teacher colleague by that nickname.  In a further C&H strip there was a Frap-Ray, and in another SPELUNK! was a frog pond sound  (I used to explore caves, so I laughed). Linda
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