Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 44
“If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous.”
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Larry Wall
(1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
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“Doc, I’m an effeminate queer, I’ve never been used as anything else!”
Robert Patrick (playwright)
(1937) Playwright, poet, lyricist, short story writer, novelist
"Pouf Positive"
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Context: I tried to make up by offering to be a subject for any cute tricks that science might want to try. And [the doctor] said, "Mr. Wood, we cannot use you as an experimental animal," and I tod him, "Doc, I’m an effeminate queer, I’ve never been used as anything else!"
““I wish Doc Pickering was here.”
“Yeah, and if fish had feet, they’d be mice.””
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 14 “The Natives are Friendly...”, p. 160
“Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh:
'That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!'”
Wilfred Owen
(1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
The Dead-Beat
Context: p>We sent him down at last, out of the way.
Unwounded; — stout lad, too, before that strafe.
Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, 'Not half!' Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh:
'That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!' </p
In jail, Cross-Country Kline to Dove Linkhorn.
Source: A Walk on the Wild Side (1956)
Context: But blow wise to this, buddy, blow wise to this: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's jolt. And never you cop another man's plea. I've tried 'em all and I know. They don't work. / Life is hard by the yard, son. But you don't have to do it by the yard. By the inch it's a cinch. And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.