[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Non-standard (was Heard: “Everybody knew…”

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

No, just the first part of the joke.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James A. Landau [mailto:JJJRLandau at netscape.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:31 PM
> To: MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil>
> Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Non-standard (was Heard: “Everybody knew…”
> 
> Did the 1946 Conjurer's Magazine have the second line of this one-liner " That was no lady.  That was my half-sister!"?
> 
> --- william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil wrote:
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> From: "MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)"	<william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil>
> To: "JJJRLandau at netscape.com" <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Non-standard (was Heard: “Everybody knew…”
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:01:49 +0000
> 
> >
> > PS: A possible candidate for Fred Shapiro's comic-strip database, from
> > Pogo (it appears in the collection _Instant Pogo_ which unfortunately I cannot locate my copy of at the moment:
> >    Magician 1:  Who was that lady I sawed with you last night?
> >    Magician 2:  That was no lady.  That was my half-sister!
> >
> 
> From _The Conjurors' Magazine_ Jul 1946, p 29 "The magician says to his lady assistant, "Say, who was that lady I sawed you with last
> night?" "
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