More Baulderdash and Piffle

[James G]

The BBC and OED are currently preparing a new series of Baulderdash and Piffle. As a result they have a new list of words to track down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/program...fulllist.shtml

I've already been looking into 'Duh Brain', convinced I remember it from primary school. However all the stuff I can find seems to back up a 1997 origin for the word. For one, the Google Usenet archives show the appearence of the word in 1997, where six occurences (Well more, if you count it more than once per post) appear. Interestingly this is the same year that the book "Duh! Brain, Brain Go Away!: & Other Stories that are Even Dumber than Dumb and Dumber" was published. Unfortunately even if this pre-dates their magazine by a few months, I'm not sure it really is an example of 'Duh Brain.'

I've already sent them an E-mail (although imagine they know of both, this was just armchari research after all). I'm currently working back through dates in Google. it haddn't turned up anything before but is now, I'm hoping I can find an extract of an article or something, preferably one which appeared in print.

ETA: Ahh, just turned up an older Usenet post, 1995. I wonder why it didn't appear earlier.