"Crazy...but it just might work" (1971)

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Fri Feb 18 09:10:45 UTC 2005


O.T..: Sorry for the double-posting. ADS-L is slow.
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One more from Google Answers. Did Herblock coin this?
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_http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=475894_
(http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=475894)
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It's a crazy plan, but it might just work!" - who said or popularised this
phrase?
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    Subject: Re: Origin of a popular  phrase
From: _pinkfreud-ga_
(http://answers.google.com/answers/ratings?user=8557989531679117785)   on 17 Feb 2005 10:36 PST
I associate this with the '70s television series "Happy Days," but I

don't think the show invented the phrase.
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(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
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     _ Sheboygan Press _
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=Ga2xMtpV76yKID/6NLMW2hAToVF3DSHinPfIZlHem6FkwiQv6ACx4UIF+CsZYmrz)  Tuesday, April
20,  1971 _Sheboygan,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:sheboygan+crazy+and+but+it+just+might+work)   _Wisconsin_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:wisconsin+crazy+and+but+it+just+might+
work)     ...Ballyhooed "IT's A  CRAZY Idea BUT IT JUST MIGHT  WORK"
Washington Merry-Go.....that will not only bring Calley to  JUST.ce BUT will also
implicate  those..

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(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
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_For  the Record . . .; The Similar Objectives Of tile U.S., U.S.S.R. _
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=157235392&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=
PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1108717150&clientId=65882)
The Washington Post, Times Herald (1959-1973). Washington,  D.C.: Apr 16,
1971. p. A26 (1 page) :
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_"It's A Crazy Idea But It Just Might Work"_
(Herblock cartoon caption--ed.)



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