A Knife and a Fork and a Bottle and a Cork... (1948); "Never been to Yale"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"I'm rubber, you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!" - NYC kid, 1962

Cf.:

MONTAGUE. I am of pliant, supple whalebone made,
And you are glue.; the insults that you hurl
Bounce off my bouyant frame and stick to you!

-- William Shakespeare*, "Romeo and Juliet, Part 1 (cont.)," V, iii,
 ll. 420-23, in H. Beard, C. Cerf, et al., The Book of Sequels (New York: Random House, 1990), p. 78.

JL
           * "William Shakespeare" is the well-known pseudonym of Henry Beard.



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Pg. 128:
I'm rubber and you're glue.
What you say to me will bounce back and stick to you.



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