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Glenn Close's tender mama gorilla has clearly been to finishing school; Lance Henriksen's massive patriarch must have learned to talk from watching after-school specials: "I said he could stay," he grits, after baby Tarzan gets adopted by his missus, "That doesn't make him my son."
In his "Dialogue" on population, Ben Wattenberg refers to something slicing through something else "like a laser through grits."
In class, her legs cross primly under her desk while her hand snaps up like a Sieg Heil . When she stamps out "Tracy Flick for President" buttons on her hand-operated button press, she sets her big jaw and grits her teeth and bears down as if eliminating her rivals with every squeeze.
In an attempt to reverse this trend, a Southern friend of mine offers the alternate when the grits hit the pan , but this usage seems destined to remain a regionalism at best, the kind of Southernism collected by John H. Felts in Bumps, Grinds, and Other Lewd (1389) Gestures [XVI,3].
Would the grits be ducks, or are they fair game for News Quiz scorn?