Yes, it appears that Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?, Dr. Seuss’ 1972 classic about suggesting ways for Marvin K to get the hell out of his presence, contains the origin of the word “Crunk“. Try as I might, I might, I can’t find any info on why the good Dr. scuttled his follow-up, “To the window, to the wall, and then On Beyond Zebra”
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1 Amanda on May 17, 2008 at 11:26 am
I was under the impression that lowered late 70s Lincolns with blacked out windows were “Crunk Cars”.
Thank you, Dr. Seuss, for setting me straight.
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2 RemmieBarrow on May 17, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Well, Dr. Seuss usually made more sense than “Pimp my Ride” or anything else in MTV’s Programing line up.
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3 MikeP on May 17, 2008 at 3:22 pm
It’s a little known fact, but Theodore Geisel had the most elaborate gold-plated teeth of his day.
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4 Casey on May 17, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I do believe that “crunk car” was introduced in 1949… in The Wind in the Willows with Mr. Toad… if I am not mistaken.
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5 Take5 on May 17, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Conor, I’m never forgiving you ever for getting that song back in my head. Five years of shock therapy down the tubes.
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6 R.A. Roth on May 18, 2008 at 10:45 am
Crunk is short for crunkle, which is a dialectic and somewhat echoic synonym for crumple or wrinkle. This of course is meaningless to Dr. Seuss, who made up crunk because he needed a word to rhyme with junk, flunk, monk, punk, lunk, brunk, drunk, funk, hunk, kunk, nunk, runk, trunk, vunk, xunk, yunk, and zunk.
By Jove and Karl Rove, Dr. Seuss stunk!
Randy
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7 andrew t. on May 18, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen Dr. Seuss and Lil Jon in the same place together?
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8 MonkeyCheezPants on May 18, 2008 at 7:37 pm
And here I was, thinking Conan O’Brien coined the term.
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9 Onil on May 19, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Dr Seuss would have had a rhyming field day with skeet skeet.
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10 SaveOurSkyline on Jul 3, 2008 at 9:12 pm
As it happens, I’m getting that illustration tattooed on me this weekend. My name is Kevin Mooney, and growing up I always thought that was pretty cool I had a book about me, telling me to GTFO. The Crunk Car is the most badass form of Marvin’s transportation (close runners-up, of course, are the Zumble-Zay, the Bumble-Boat, by boot, and by jet).
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11 Danny on Jul 3, 2008 at 10:01 pm
That’s it…I’m gonna go chill with some ‘crumple juice’…with my mind on my website and my website on my mind…or somethin’….
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12 Brian on Jul 4, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Lil’ Jon seems to think he came up with it.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2003-07-24-crunk_x.htm
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