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[Conrad Heiney]

I think your mothe was actually threatening to "murdalize" you, which I
remember as a playground adulteration of "murder". It was common in my
late 1970s elementary/junior high school world, and I saw it used on TV
comedies later. 

Wasn't there a character in the Broom-Hilda strip called Gronk? Or am I
totally out of it?

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 07:38:18AM -0400, lindafowens wrote:
> 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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