"You cannot be serious" (McEnroe, 1996)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:18:52 EST, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

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>New York  Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Dec 20, 1996. p. B15 (1
>page)  :
>...
>And if they still cannot agree, they will take their grievance to the
>highest figure of authority in the entire Garden, the Hanging Judge
Herself:  Mary
>Carillo, McEnroe's childhood friend and adult nemesis.
>...
>(...)
>...
>"I will tell John, 'You cannot be serious,'" Carillo said, emphasis on the
>"cannot." She got his Queens inflections perfectly.

Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 1984, p. 34 (Nexis)
[I]n spite of all the heroics that Connors, Borg, and Billie Jean King
have introduced into the game - not to mention You Cannot Be Serious
McEnroe - there remains an Edwardian summer garden-party flavor to tennis.



--Ben Zimmer