Chrysti The Wordsmith: Doublie Whammy

Greetings This is Christie the wordsmith American English speakers often use the expression double whammy to mean one hit of misfortune on top of another. Contracting food poisoning while serving jail time for a DUI would certainly be a double whammy of bad luck. The saying was born and raised on American soil and a Dog Patch to be specific. It was coined in the 1040s by Al Capp author and artist of the Little Abner comic series featuring Lil Abner and self daisy mae jubilation t cornpone and others. All residents of the fictitious southern town of dogpatch one of Cap's characters was the Brooklyn born Zoot suited evil eye Flieger when provoked Flegel had the power to affect ocular hexes claiming he could melt a battleship simply by staring malevolently with his own two evil eyes the famous double whammy. Here's helf legal bragged about himself in a capped comic strip from 1951. Evil I flee goals the name and the whammy is my game. Mother Nature

endowed me with eyes which can putrified as citizens to the spot. There is the single whammy that friend is the full pure power of one of my evil eyes. And lastly the double whammy. Namely the full power of both eyes which I hopes I never have to use while the comic series Lil Abner was retired some thirty years ago. Evil Eye for legals double whammy remains a hardworking American ism. I'm Christie the wordsmith. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.