"gimme some skin" (was GEICO)

[Sam Clements]

>From Dorothy Kilgallen, April, 1940:

>>When a Harlemite(sic) says "Let's have some skin" he wants to shake
hands.<<

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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: GEICO ad


> "Gimme some skin, man!" was the height of white-boy junior hipster coolth
when I was in seventh or eighth grade. I don't think it's been found in
print before the '40s. (Actually, "slap me five!" may have been even
cooler.)