"Future Ain't What It Used to Be"

[Jonathan Lighter]

To resond to my<Card entry="0" title="hdas:1.02" sortkey="" url="0" stage="C" type="citecard">
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    suss out</Lemma>
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     "sniff out"
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   2005</Date>
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               <QuotText> Sussing out that meaning is part of the plan.</QuotText>
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To reply to my own post yet again, that title is probably "Isn't."

JL

Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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How about "Nostalgia Ain't What it Used to Be"? Old movie title.

JL

Fred Shapiro 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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