« Walking the walk = talking the talk | Main | Mixed Cardboard Only » "Why can't us?" Oh, please.22 Oct 2008 10:01 am I woke up to a paean to "Why can't us?" on my local NPR station this morning, courtesy of Bill Littlefield. Online backgrounder is here. If a Phillies fan did something else we think is cute when children do it -- say, walked around clutching a philthy phurry Phillie Phanatic toy all day -- we'd just feel sorry for the guy. Do we have to keep being charmed when grown-ups say things worthy of four-year-olds? Comments (4)
Hmm. Maybe, if they feel their team was cheated out of a win, they'll yell: US WUZ ROBBED! 
US CAN HAZ PENANT NOW? PLEEZ!??!
No love for enallage? I would file that one in the same category as "We was robbed" for serendipitously brilliant bad grammar. Like Arthur Quinn once pointed out, if Joe Jacobs had said "We were robbed," nobody would have remembered it.
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I have no opinion about the question at hand. I'm just happy whenever Bill Littlefield smuggles his doggerel onto the airwaves. More commentators need to comment in verse.
Posted by Boring Commenter | October 22, 2008 5:33 PM