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Word Origin Comics: Is Life a Bummer or Are You Simply a Bum?

Word Origin Comics: Is Life a Bummer or Are You Simply a Bum?
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Is the bum about to make a comeback? Hey, a bum by any other name would still smell-- or wouldn't he?

"I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man."

― Janet Schulman, Jack the Bum and the Halloween Handout

"Stenchgator, the Great Unwiped Bum... was listed in the Bumper Book of Bums as the stinkiest bum in the world. Most bums only registered one or two points on the Rectum scale, but Stenchgator came in at a nose-bruising 9.8 points."

-- Andy Griffiths

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.

-- Alan Dershowitz

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