"Future Ain't What It Used to Be"

[Jonathan Lighter]

How about "Nostalgia Ain't What it Used to Be"?   Old movie title.

JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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Is anyone willing to search ProQuest Historical Newspapers to see if there
are any pre-1977 hits for "the future ain't what it used to be" or "the
future isn't what it used to be"?

Fred Shapiro


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