New York Minute?

[Laurence Horn]

>I don't find much on the Web, at a glance: about the best reference I see is
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>http://www.wilton.net/wordorn.htm
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>which claims a likely origin in Texas around 1967.
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>The unfamiliarity of the expression in Chicago in 1965 is mentioned at
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>http://www.rhino.com/features/liners/73505lin.html
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>Conventional reference books immediately available to me are not helpful.
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>-- Doug Wilson

I can't contribute anything about the origin, but it was popularized
in some quarters by an otherwise forgettable (70's?) country song
with a refrain that went something like:

I'd make love to you in a New York minute,
And take my Texas time to do it.

larry