"You Want It When?"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Seems to me to have started in a FedEx campaign in the '90s.

  Related bumper sticker from about two years ago:

  "U.S. Marines.  When it absolutely positively must be blown up overnight."

  JL

"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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There is a cartoon with little caricature guys laughing with the
caption "You Want It When?". Mark Evanier discusses it in his blog:

http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_04_12.html#011322

and wants to know its origins. Anyone on the list got a clue about it?

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