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Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jun 19 20:02:44 UTC 2002


On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

> D'oh!, Doh! (Expression of frustration used when a person has done something
> stupid; popularized by Homer Simpson):
> antedate 1993
> (now antedated to 1945)

I posted a 1931 usage from Laurel and Hardy on ADS-L in March.

Fred Shapiro


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