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[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:38:51 -0500, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:
>
>>From APS via Proquest:
>
>National Police Gazette, Dec 6, 1879, p. 14/3. "Glimpses of Gotham"
>You have doubtless heard about the inexperienced husband who came home at
>the milkman's hour deathly sick, and who, upon being interrogated by his
>wife, owned up to sixty beers during the night, and laid the sickness to
>one Frankfurter sausage.


Whoops, should've checked the archive first.  Fred already spotted this one:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0310D&L=ads-l&P=R2293&D=0


--Ben Zimmer