funny books

Beverly Flanigan flanigan at OHIO.EDU
Fri Aug 10 15:43:02 UTC 2007


At 09:26 AM 8/10/2007, you wrote:
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>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject:      Re: funny books--was:  things that are not eggcorns
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>   My grandfather occasionally used the facetious parting salutation, "See
> you in the funny papers!"
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>   JL

My dad used to say this too.  Anyone know where it comes from?

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