Bob's Your Uncle: Antedating and History

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 25, 2014, at 8:40 PM, Baker, John wrote:

> It's true, the speaker was not complaining that his own job was too easy.

Because he wasn't as green as he was cabbage looking.

LH
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>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 7:10 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A better example comes from the Yorkshire Evening Post on January 11, 1937,
>>> in an account by a parson of a conversation with a man who thought he had
>>> an easy job:
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>>  -
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>> A better example comes from the Yorkshire Evening Post on January 11, 1937,
>> in an account by a parson of a conversation with a man who thought _the
>> parson_
>> had an easy job:
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> -Mark Twain
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