Obviously it was coined sometime after the first tin can was invented.
But who coined the phrase open up a can of whoop-ass ?
Glazer
October 4, 2013, 1:29am
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It came from that Chuck Norris movie where he went back to Nam to rescue Ross Perot’s son. Can’t remember the name ATM.
I did. Now shut up about it or I’m gonna open a whole can of… nevermind.
Glazer
October 4, 2013, 1:44am
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Sorry no Chuck in that movie my bad.
Best part of that movie. Fast forward to 50 sec.
Lot of Tex Cobb, though, if I’m not mistaken. Why is he wearing sneakers??
I thought the phrase was older than that movie. But can’t recall when I first heard it. Tex was a guy that could open up a big can of whoop ass.
How about “I’ll rip off your head and shit down your neck!” ?
I first heard it from Dan Aykroyd in “Doctor Detroit” in 1983.
Anything earlier?
I remember that from Trading Places, but it wasn’t Aykroyd who said it.
Diver
October 4, 2013, 3:51am
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It was whup ass when I was growing up many years ago. Whooping was hollering.
Glazer
October 4, 2013, 4:06am
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I always liked: “I’ll gouge your eyes out and skull fuck you.”
I always thought it was Tubadiva?
This is from the early 90’s. Theres quite a few comedy CD’s featuring the character Roy D. Mercer . The Uncommon Valor quote by Tex Cobb still beats it by ten years.
KMOD-FM (97.5 MHz) is a mainstream rock radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station plays a wide variety of rock music from the 1960s through today. Its studios are located at the Tulsa Event Center in Southeast Tulsa and its transmitter site is on the Osage Reservation.
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The station was the home of disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, who originated the character Roy D. Mercer, the notorious and popular prank caller who regularly threatened to “open a can of whup-ass” on the person he called (for some fabricated wrong the person supposedly had done), only for the person to find out the call was a prank. Stone died in 2012, not long after he and Douglas were not allowed to continue their works as DJs due to the latter’s refusal to sign a new contract.
Roy D. Mercer was a fictional character created by American disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone on radio station KMOD-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Douglas, who performed Mercer's voice, used the character as a vehicle for comedy sketches in which he performed prank calls. The two released twelve albums of prank call recordings under the Roy D. Mercer name via Virgin Records and Capitol Records. The character was retired in 2012 upon Stone's death.
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Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, disc jockeys on KMOD-FM, a rock radio station, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, created the Roy D. Mercer character in 1993.
I always thought it was Al Sharpton.
TBG
October 5, 2013, 12:41am
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I wonder if there’s any connection to the whoopie cushion, I mean, the ass is involved there.
Same here. Redneck speak for “whip ass”.
The etymological ancestry of this expression is traced back to the battle of Waterloo, in which Wellington, in a preface taunting to Napoleon, shouted, “Listen, ya bloody frog, and bugger off, or I shall proceed to unlid a full coop of arse-wallopping upon thee.” The rest is history.
I was actually just thinking about this today. The “whoopass” spelling has always annoyed me. On the other hand, I have never seen the phrase “big whoop” pronounced “big hoop”, though I suppose it ought to be (always “big whup”).
