"Play it again, Sam"

[Bob Haas]

We've got Play it Again Sports in Greensboro.

bob

> From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:43:01 +0800
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "Play it again, Sam"
>
> At 7:24 PM -0400 9/20/00, Anne Lambert wrote:
>> What Bogart says is, "Play it, Sam."
>> Someone should list the stores, etc., named "Play it, Sam," "Play it again,
>> Sam" and so on. We have a sports store here in Gainesville called "Play It
>> Again."
>>
> Might the full name be "Play It Again Sports"?  I believe it's a
> chain (either that or a coincidence) selling recycled sports gear
> (including workout machines as well as baseball gloves, hockey and
> lacrosse sticks, clothes, etc.), as there's a store with that name
> around here and I believe I've driven past another one somewhere else.
>
> larry