"Call me a cab/taxi" (1901)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:38 PM -0500 2/18/05, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>This probably comes from a humor magazine such as Life, Puck, Judge, or
>Texas Siftings. Here it is in the mouth of a famous American.
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>(GOOGLE)
>_The  Coffee Place's Joke Stack_ (http://www.thecoffeepla
>ce.com/Jokes/aaaaabjk.html)
>The Coffee Place's Joke  Stack. "Call me a taxi," said the fat man. "Okay,"
>said
>the doorman. "You're a taxi, but you look  more like a truck to me." ... ...
>www.thecoffeeplace.com/Jokes/aaaaabjk.html - 2k - _Cached_

How about the local variant--

Make me a malted.
Pffft--you're a malted.

larry