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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

384.0. "Bounce" by MARVIN::KNOWLES (Pour encourager les auteurs) Fri Jul 17 1987 05:40

    When A.A.Milne used 'bounce' as a transitive verb (Tigger bounced
    Eeyore into the river) I thought it was funny.  What made it funnier
    was that Eeyore used it in the passive: he said 'I was bounced'.
    
    I thought it was funny too, tho' not meant to be funny, when some
    politician (Shirley Williams, I think) berated David Steele about
    a month ago for trying to 'bounce' the SDP into fusion with the
    Liberal party.  I heard someone else using 'bounce ' like this
    on the radio news this morning; this time the Government was
    trying to 'bounce' British Airways into doing something.
    
    Are these early sightings, or has this transitive usage been
    current for years? 
    
    Bob

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
384.1	Bounce that ball over here...	MTA::BOWERS	Count Zero Interrupt	`Fri Jul 17 1987 09:43`	5
	bounce _vt_(19??) : What a child does to a ball. I've been using _bounce_ as a transitive verb as long as I've been talking (since around 1947).
384.2	Addendum	MTA::BOWERS	Count Zero Interrupt	`Fri Jul 17 1987 09:47`	3
	After reading .0 more carefully, I feel I should point out that I've been using _bounce_ as a transitive verb since 1947 in New York.
384.3	Coerce	MARVIN::KNOWLES	Pour encourager les auteurs	`Fri Jul 17 1987 10:39`	4
	But you don't bounce a ball _into_ the ground, or bounce a baby _into_ your knee. My fault, for mentioning 'transitive'. The meaning I'm interested in is something like 'coerce precipitately'.
384.4	:-)	ERIS::CALLAS	CO in the war between the sexes	`Fri Jul 17 1987 11:23`	5
	re .2: As opposed to 1947 in Britian? Jon
384.5	boingngng...	INK::KALLIS	Raise Hallowe'en awareness.	`Fri Jul 17 1987 11:43`	11
	"Bounce" is also used, don't forget, as a colloquialism for "fire" or "get rid of," as -- "Does he still have a job?" "No, he was bounced." A "bouncer," who presumably "bounces," is a person (usually muscular/ burley) who throws unruly patrons out of nightclubs, gambling casinos, and equivalent. Steve Kallis, Jr.
384.6	Gerrold McBoingBoing?	WEBSTR::RANDALL	I'm no lady	`Fri Jul 17 1987 15:39`	10
	When I was growing up (circa 1960 in Montana), I recall hearing bounce, presumably as derived from the usage in .5, used as miner's slang for being pushed into getting a job one didn't want and intended to get rid of as soon as one could manage to get bounced out, as for example, "Hey, Stanley, I see you're working at the pharmacy!" "Yeah, me mum-in-law bounced me into it." --bonnie