"Don't quit your day job" (1985)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:47:17 -0400, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:44:25 -0700, Tom Dalzell <slangman at PACBELL.NET> wrote:
>
>>Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>>
>>>Where did this come from? When?
>>
>>Lexis-Nexis takes us one year earlier:
>>
>>People, May 7, 1984
>>
>>Goodlow took home $500 cash, 10,000 shares of "penny stock,"
>>which is worth $100 at most, and a plaque that reads "Don't Quit Your
>>Day Job."
>
>The bluegrass group The Country Gazette recorded an album in 1973 called
>_Don't Give Up Your Day Job_.
>
>http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7qktk6jxlkrf

And slightly earlier than that:

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"In the Wake of the News" by David Condon
Chicago Tribune, Apr 22, 1972, p. A3
Arthur Rubioff also appeared in the production and could be nominated for
"best costume." Way to go Arthur, but don't give up your day job.
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--Ben Zimmer