Citations:posilutely
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English citations of posilutely, posolutely, and posalutely
- 1917 November, Fitzhugh Green, “Amusing Fifty Thousand Men: Another Avenue for Government Control”, in J. W. Greenslade, editor, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 43, number 11 (whole number 177), page 2538:
- It may be tiresome, but calculate this celluloid Klondike: Any old reels will do, comedies, tragedies, weekly reviews (dating back to the fall of Sumter)—“posalutely absatively” anything will do!
- 1977, “I Absotively, Posolutely Love You”, in Paul Mitchell, William Bell (music), Comin' Back for More, performed by William Bell:
- I absotively, posolutely love ya, baby / I absotively, posolutely love ya, yeah / No bout a-doubt it / I can't live without it
- 1991 October 3, “When Flanders Failed”, in The Simpsons, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Ned Flanders:
- Shopper: Could you validate my parking?
- Ned Flanders: Absotively posilutely!
- 1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:
- “Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”
- 1994, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL:
- Worthingham Washington Lewis told me he was absatively, posolutely ready for us: “We've got the scenario, and my men are raring to go, Captain.”
- 1998, Lewis Kornfeld, The Pheromone Factor: Twenty-Five Short Stories:
- "No way, madam, it's posilutely confidential," I chuckled.
- 1999, Poul Anderson, Operation Luna, New York: Tor, →ISBN, →OL, page 104:
- “Posolutely and absitively not.”
- 2001, “Absotively Posolutely”, in MHz (music), Table Scraps[1], performed by MHz ft. Copywrite:
- We're absotively posolutely sure we got the cure for the common rhyme at the beat in time.
- 2010, “Almost Alright”, in Clint Lagerberg, Craig Wiseman (music), Hillbilly Bone, performed by Blake Shelton:
- I'm absotively, posolutely, almost alright