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To: nickcarraway

author is a moron and has NO idea where the term “gaslight” came from, namely the movie “Gaslight”, so they just made up a fake etymology ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)


2 posted on 05/21/2021 5:23:54 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman; nickcarraway

Gaslight (1940)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYmtzaHwCKo


4 posted on 05/21/2021 5:25:23 PM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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To: catnipman

author is a moron and has NO idea where the term “gaslight” came from, namely the movie “Gaslight”, so they just made up a fake etymology ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)


The author was obviously gaslighting us about gaslighting!!!


17 posted on 05/21/2021 5:47:58 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: catnipman

Exactly.

I noticed the same thing.


18 posted on 05/21/2021 5:49:42 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: catnipman

author is a moron and has NO idea where the term “gaslight” came from, namely the movie “Gaslight”

——this, thank you. We were being Gaslighted , by an arsonist


24 posted on 05/21/2021 6:20:34 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: catnipman
I was kind of amazed at the claim in this post. I heard about that movie in my youth from my mother. That was an old movie.
25 posted on 05/21/2021 6:29:03 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfef m uu)
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To: catnipman
author is a moron and has NO idea where the term “gaslight” came from, namely the movie “Gaslight”, so they just made up a fake etymology ...

Actually, you are kind of as enlightened as him. The 1944 movie you are talking about was a remake of a 1940 British film Gas Light. But that wasn't the source of the term either...

The British film was based on a 1938 play of the same name. The gas light come from it taking place in 1880s Victorian London, before it had electrical lights.

42 posted on 05/21/2021 10:07:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: catnipman

>>author is a moron and has NO idea where the term “gaslight” came from, namely the movie “Gaslight”, so they just made up a fake etymology ...

“BALVINDER SANDHUHER” = BS

Yes, it’s like all of the bogus entries in Urban Dictionary for things where people just enter their half assed guess at what something means rather than doing any research.


55 posted on 05/22/2021 6:58:56 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: catnipman

Yep, this is a ‘bash men’ thing dressed up as an ‘in’ phrase.


62 posted on 05/22/2021 1:50:07 PM PDT by GOPJ (Liz Cheney: There was NO VOTER FRAUD Winston. YOU agree Winston? How many fingers Winston...?)
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I was saying to myself, “this child has probably never seen even one Ingrid Bergman movie, let alone the one that brought ‘gaslight’ to the lexicon as a verb.”


69 posted on 05/24/2021 9:26:49 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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