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[Nora Munoz]

I know it was used in Bugs Bunny (Why, I oughta!  I'll
mertilize him, I'll squash him like a bug!), which I
assume was getting it from old gansta flicks with
James Cagney and such.  Perhaps they were just
changing the words around so that we children wouldn't
get the idea that they were actually going to murder
someone.
Nora

--- lindafowens <lindafowens at netzero.net> 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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