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<font size=3>At 12:19 AM 8/10/2004, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Poster:
"Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas@NB.NET><br><br>
Presumably the ancestor of "soda jerk".<br><br>
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_The Times_ (Trenton NJ), 4 Sep. 1889: p. 3(?), col. 2:<br><br>
<<NOBODY KNOWS / When the girls will stop flirting. / .... / When
the<br>
streets will be kept clean. / When the local fishermen will stop lying.
/<br>
... / When soda jerkers will give a full gla[ss] for a nickel. /
...>><br><br>
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-- Doug Wilson</blockquote><br>
And note that it's still around in 1957:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear kindly social worker, <br>
They say go earn a buck. <br>
Like be a soda jerker, <br>
Which means like be a schumck. <br>
It's not I'm anti-social, <br>
I'm only anti-work. <br>
Gloryosky! That's why I'm a jerk! </font></blockquote><br>
Geoff<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
Gee Officer Krupke, West Side Story<br>
Book by Arthur Laurents; Music by Leonard Bernstein; Lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim;<br><br>
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