Super! Let’s get started

 


Super! Let’s get started


      The story is now clear from the personal experience of Kent Smith who was accompanying Greg on a hunt for an apartment. They were in a "property management consultant's office spelling out the needs of young Sheehy for his new domicile in Los Angeles. The guy was in typical realty garb with the sans-a-belt slacks, wide collar poly shirt and liesure suit coat. He was ready to make some money and as Greg completed the questions the manager assured him he would be showing him quality digs beginning NOW and said "Super! Let's Get Started!" The phrase was used hundreds of times by Greg long after he rented Tremaine or Lemon Grove. Greg always said it with a positive emotive fervor and sometimes just shortened the saying to simply "Super!" It was used to express agreement about anything. It could also be used as a farewell statement on a phone call or an agreement to meet at some later date. Used correctly it would have the same tone as a Miss America contestant saying how much she loved America. It was the same kind of linguistic tomfoolery that drove us to intentionally mispronounce words or say lame or stiff wordings ie popped corn, or frankfurter sandwich and baseball contest. They were also pronounced in an artificially crisp elocution. The saying of Super! spread and was used by both of us and even Lissy putting a punctuation on any agreed upon social interaction. Part of the fun of the saying is that it was used way too much as an adjective on talk shows by Hollywood wannabees we used to listen to in our youth. It is one of the silly utterances I can not use with anyone but my old pal and goes into the memory bank of eternity



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