Talk:Four flush
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What does "four flushing" in German mean? Pooter-the-clown 11:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Unreferenced material edit
I am removing the following unreferenced material from the article. If any of it can be referenced, it can be included in the article.
Chevy Chase used the term "four flushing!" in the 1989 film National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. The term is also used by Pooter-the-Clown, actor Mike Starr, in another film Uncle Buck of the same release year. The phrase is also used in the 1967 Walt Disney version of the Jungle Book. Bagheera the panther calls Baloo the bear a four flusher. James Cagney uses the phrase angrily and sarcastically in the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me (film). In the 1926 silent film, "The Show Off", the term "four flusher" is used by Louise Brooks to describe her next door neighbor's son-in-law. William S. Burroughs uses the term "four-flusher" to describe some of the characters that populate his first novel, Junkie. Hot Lips Houlihan, played by Loretta Swit, uses it to insult Frank Burns (played by Larry Linville) in the 1973 "M*A*S*H" episode "Dear Dad ... Three". In the 1975 movie The Apple Dumpling Gang (film), Susan Clark's character Magnolia Dusty Clydesdale exclaims, "Don't slick talk me you four flusher!" while chasing her new husband Russel Donavan, played by Bill Bixby, through the town tavern. Bugs Bunny uses the term in the 1948 My Bunny Lies Over The Sea. In the 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film, "Dr. Jack", C. Norman Hammond uses the phrase "a four-flusher!" to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.[1]
— LinguistAtLarge • Talk 23:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I understand that you removed the unreferenced material, but isn't the reference to the webpage with the intertitles for the movie Dr. Jack, not a reference? You won't find printed scripts for silent movies in any other reference I know of. Also, would referencing a movie's imdb page be good enough for a reference, since the movie itself is the source for these quotes and usages.
Kmanblue (talk) 05:06, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation script: http://www.moviescriptplace.com/data/National%20Lampoon%27s%20Christmas%20Vacation.pdf Chevy Chase's line is on page 111. Oddly, it is spelled "four flusin'" on that page. 216.227.79.27 (talk) 04:22, 17 September 2010 (UTC) Cousin Eddie
Alternate meaning edit
I always thought it referred to faeces so massive you needed to flush the toilet four times to be rid of it. Hence calling someone that name meant they were a "giant shit". The true meaning is much classier. -- 118.90.106.233 (talk) 10:23, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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"Welsher" edit
Isn't this term in itself pejorative? 2600:1700:63E1:5F30:2783:64C5:5085:EAC4 (talk) 19:14, 2 January 2023 (UTC)