Nothing to see, here: Different strokes

[Jonathan Lighter]

Quite something, Charlie.

The phrase was further popularized by frequent use on _Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In_ (NBC-TV) in 1969 or so.

JL

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Wilson--
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> Here is the earliest that we have in the "modern provrbs" file:
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> Different strokes for different folks.  1945  _Philadelphia Tribune_ 19
> May:  添es, I realize that 'times have changed' and that, as a jitterbug
> friend told me the other day, 'one has different strokes for different
> folks.'"
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> --Charlie
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> 1966 [quoting boxer Cassius Clay] "I got DIFFERENT STROKES FOR
> DIFFERENT FOLKS.迫Great Bend Daily Tribune (Kansas), 11 November, page
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> 1967 [Soul Brothers Top 20] Different Folks Like Different Strokes:
>                                                      Soul singer Syl
> Johnson has something when he says
>                                                      there are
> "DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS."末JET Magazine. 9 November,
> page 64
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> The title of the song quoted is simply, Different Strokes. The full
> forrm occurs in the refrain.
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