Schwarzenegger picked it up from the Hans & Franz skit on SNL. So
yes, they were satirizing Schwarzenegger by throwing around the term
"girly-man," and then Schwarzenegger appropriated it and started
actually using the term himself, apparently without a trace of irony
or self-consciousness.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 29 May 2007, at 10:16 PM, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
Probably the most widely-attributed use of the latter was to Arnold
Schwarzenegger about two years ago.
Whether the term predated the Governator or he created it: I
dunno. And that's as far as I'll go rather than spilling my
political guts any further.
Best,
Les
Les Marsden
Founding Music Director and Conductor,
The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!!
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Howell
To: finale@shsu.edu
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: John Cage's first national TV
appearance (1960)
At 7:24 AM -0400 5/29/07, Phil Daley wrote:
The sports nut wife called the other kids "sissys" and "girly men".
I wonder where that term came from? ;-)
Either Laugh-In or Saturday Night Live. I forget which.
Although it
may have been a more limited slang term before its TV exposure.
John
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