All Your Base Are Belong to Us

[Boatti, Stephen]

In New York in the 50s, we used the much more grammatical "Anyone around my
base is it."


Steve

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Bernard W. Kane [mailto:bkane at TIGGER.JVNC.NET]
Sent:   Friday, March 02, 2001 10:53 PM
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Subject:        Ref: All Your Base Are Belong to Us

Is the following relevant? Imperfectly recalled as the final exclamation
from a little kids' street tag game Philadelphia late '30s:
"All around my base is it!"

Bernie Kane
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