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I want to know where the expression "Mister Baby Johnson!" came from??? I looked on ASK.com and Wikipedia and can not find anything about it's derivation.

Brenda I wondered the same thing! I thought maybe it was just another hilarious way the author shaped the father’s brilliant yet quirky character. His father…moreI wondered the same thing! I thought maybe it was just another hilarious way the author shaped the father’s brilliant yet quirky character. His father had such depth to him - but he was not a man to lower himself to utter common obscenities. His intellect and respect for his wife just couldn’t suffer that. But he certainly felt vey strong emotions! From anger to frustration to disbelief, the father just had to let it out! So he created a phrase which, for him, embodied all of the emotions that others might have lazily expressed with cuss words. He father had allowed himself an outlet of release and expression for these strong and turbulent feelings through his made-up phrase “Mister Baby Johnson!” This is how I interpreted this endearing, though seldom, practice of this character - and I simply loved it!(less)

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