"pickle-puss"

[Sam Clements]

I see your method now.  Being polite.  Suck him in to finding more.  But I'm
wise to you.  Lucky for you I'm a commited searcher-of-mundane-stuff.

There is also a 1937 useage in "Little Annie Rooney."  Another comic strip.
That's the earliest.  Except that Ben will come along, and manipulate the
database, and come up with some pre-revolutionary cite.  Curses!

Damnit!  I hate being used like this.

sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: "pickle-puss"


> Thanks, Sam.
>
> JL
>
> Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: "pickle-puss"
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>
> A quick search of Newspaperarchive turns up a comic strip useage from
> 1938.
> I went no further.
>
> Jon, surely Oxford can afford to give you a paid subscription to
> Newspaperarchive.
>
> Times are tough in business, but this is rediculous.
>
> Sam Clements
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Lighter"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 7:37 PM
> Subject: "pickle-puss"
>
>
>> OED lacks an entry for "pickle-puss," but HDAS III will have it, natch.
>>
>> Can anybody beat 1941 for "pickle-puss"?
>>
>> JL
>>
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