Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

--- "Ph.D." <phil@...> wrote:


>
> When I was a teenager, there was a song with a line
> something like "If you need me, I'll be there in a
> hurry."
> Every time I heard it, I pictured someone driving up
> in
> a vehicle called a "hurry."

Is that anything like "the hurry with the fringe on
top" from the musical Oklahoma? ;-)

There's also the current usage of "goes" and "went"
for "says" and "said" as in "Then he goes like 'What's
up dude?'"

--gary
> --Ph. D.