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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread "Get out of Dodge" #131043 07/31/2004 2:23 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... I was just watching Gunsmoke reruns on the new Westerns Channel, and it struck me that when we had that "phrases from movies and TV" thread way back when, we missed "Get out of Dodge!", a phrase that has also evolved into many variants such as "it's time to get out of Dodge", etc. I'm surmisin' this came from the TV Western, but I could be wrong. It *could have come out of the original history of the town, too. Anybody know? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "Get out of Dodge" #131044 07/31/2004 1:09 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Dave Wilton, on wordorigins, has this to say: http://pub122.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm8.showMessage?topicID=20.topic Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "Get out of Dodge" #131045 07/31/2004 4:11 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Actually it comes from an old movie about traffic cops. In one scene a cop draws down on the miscreant behind the wheel and tells him in a menacing voice, "Get out of the Dodge." My brother has an old Dodge truck and lived at the time in West Virginia, which required an annual safety inspection. Bob took his pickemup down to the local inspection station, only to be informed by the inspector, "Bob, this old truck ain't gonna pass this time." "Why not?" asked Bob. "Horn don't work." "Hayell," replied Bob, "it don't need no horn, it's got a visual warning device. See right there on the hood it says 'Dodge.'" TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: "Get out of Dodge" #131046 08/08/2004 4:38 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok When we were doing our big trip across the US in 2001, we went to Dodge City - which was a few hundred miles off our main route, 66 - just so we could say that we'd gotten the hell out of Dodge. That was a fortunate side-trip as it happens, because we went from there to Wichita and so discovered the Hutchinson Cosmodrome which is, for my money, the best aerospace museum in the world, bar none! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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