Keeping it real

[Mullins, Bill]

>From the 1970's, if not earlier:
"It's been real, and it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun."

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> John Baker writes:
>  >It may have been influenced by "It's been real," which I
> recall was popular in the 1970s.< ~~~~~~~~~  "It's been
> real," delivered with a mock-earnest expression has been
> around at least since the late '40s, when I first heard it.
> A. Murie
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