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Just bumped into another historical pop culture reference to the phrase "Goodnight Irene" on wikipedia. It a description of a character from the old Al Capp newspaper comic "Lil Abner:"


Mammy Yokum: Born Pansy Hunks, Mammy, Abner's mother, is the scrawny, highly principled society leader and bare-knuckle champion of the town of Dogpatch. She married Pappy Yokum in 1902; they produced two sons twice their own size. Mammy dominates the Yokum clan through the force of her personality and dominates everyone else with her fearsome right uppercut (sometimes known as her "Goodnight, Irene" punch)...