A Diller, A Dollar (1955); OT: Goodbye AOL?

[Wilson Gray]

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>Poster:       "Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU>
>Subject:      Re: A Diller, A Dollar (1955); OT: Goodbye AOL?
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>Pg. 43:
>A B C D goldfish,
>M N O goldfish.
>O S A R D goldfish,
>  C M?
>O I C.
>(Abie, see the goldfish,
>Them ain't no goldfish.
>Oh, yes they are the goldfish,
>See 'em?
>Oh, I see.)
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>The version I have seen has an additional letter, which may have been
>omitted for this publication:
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>A B C D goldfish,
>L M N O goldfish.
>    [...]
>(Abie, see the goldfish,
>Hell, them ain't no goldfish...
>
>-- Mark
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ADCDQTT
OMNOQTT
OSAR

Abie, see the cuties?
Oh, them ain't no cuties!
Oh, yes they are!

 From Readers Digest ca. the '40's

-Wilson Gray