Dad Gummit Anyway!

[Twisted_Metal]

I don't have a ___ BUT i wish I did cause they look so dead gum good.

Just out of curiousity...

I've noticed this term used a few times on the board recently... "Dead Gum"

Is this a regional usage of which neither the "Urban Dictionary" nor myself is aware or an inside joke that I missed?

I find no usage anywhere of the term "Dead gum" except in reference to ABC (already been chewed) gum.


Urban Dictionary

dad gum

Modification of the term g*d d@mn. Comes from the midwest, as near as I can tell - my grandfather (an Illinois native) used to say it a lot.

Note the term is always used as an adjective, and NEVER as a verb. So you can have a dad gum toll booth attendant, but you don't dad gum the toll booth attendant. The only exception to this rule is that "Dad gummit" is a suitable substitute for "g*dd@mmit"

Dad gummit anyway! Quit yer chompin' that dead gum and gimme the dad gum wreckin' bar!

 

[67lemanster]

i too have heard dad gum but never dead. hmmmmmmmmmmm. thats is all

 

[Chris77Z28]

Dead gum. It must be a Ga. thing. If you chew on enough peach seeds it will give you dead gum's

 

[ReRod]

I don't hear that one as much as Gol Durnit.

 

[Chris77Z28]

My son started using it here about 3 or 4 months ago when he heard the trailers for the movie Cars. Tater says DEAD GUM the tow truck.

 

[rogerh]

Eventually turned into dag nabit

 

[Daddys Girl]

A Local here actually made a music video about that phrase and posted it on youtube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCY9G_FmJg

 

[hhott71]

Dad Gum is correct.
In the Midwest kids still have Dads,,,, so when other regions embrace it, they have never heard of a "Dad" so they rationalize it to be Dead Gum.

 

[ReRod]

 

[Twisted_Metal]

A Local here actually made a music video about that phrase and posted it on youtube....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCY9G_FmJg

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