Me Strong! Like Bull!
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weswilsonI just get the feeling it's a Tom Hanks line... spoken with a heavy russian accent. Bachelor Party? Big?
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Date: 2006-12-16 08:21 am (UTC)"The earliest reference to "strong, like bull" I was able to find was
in a 1950's sitcom called "Make Room For Daddy"(1), featuring the
actor Hans Conried(2) as Uncle Tonoose. Conried would later appear on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show as the voice of Snidley Whiplash. (This is important because the most common origin listed of strong like bull is from the character Boris, and Conried is the most likely reason for it's appearance in the cartoon.)
Tonoose was known for saying "strong like bull, smart like streetcar"
as a catchphrase. His first appearance on the show was in 1956."
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Date: 2006-12-16 02:36 pm (UTC)regular segment each week about the Russian spies Boris and Natasha, and
Boris would occasionally comment about some peasant girl who was "beeeg and
strong like booool" The show was written for adults and was popular with
boomer college students, the same crowd that read MAD magazine in the 1950s
for its anti-Establishment sarcasm and satire. I started to hear the
phrase "big and strong..." in popular discourse in the late 1960s or early
1970s, after the show was off the air, but can't remember who revived it
from the original source.
Pete Farruggio
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