"What? Me Worry?"

[Sam Clements]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Zimmer" <bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: "What? Me Worry?"


> So this image (boy in checkered suit, "Me Worry?" caption) actually dates
> to the '30s or '40s? Perhaps Kurtzman's innovation was simply adding the
> "What".
> --Ben Zimmer

That's my informed opinion.

Sam Clements