"You Want It When?"

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Fri Apr 21 16:58:18 UTC 2006


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> >> "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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> >> Sender: American Dialect Society
> >> Poster: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC"
> >> Subject: "You Want It When?"
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> >> There is a cartoon with little caricature guys laughing
> > with the
> >> caption "You Want It When?". Mark Evanier discusses it in
> > his blog:
> >>
> >> http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_04_12.html#011322
> >>
> >> and wants to know its origins. Anyone on the list got a
> > clue about it?
> >

The original questioner, Mark Evanier, has gotten a number of responses.
The consensus is that it was created by Henry Syverson, possibly for the
Saturday Evening Post:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_04_12.html#011323

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