New York Minute (1954?)

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:06 AM -0700 6/10/06, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Good find, Barry, esp. since I first heard in the C&W song of ca1984
>that contrasted it with "I'll take my _Texas_ time" [JL's emphasis].
>
>   JL


Would that be
"I'll make love to you in a New York minute/
And take my (i.e. "ma") Texas time to do it"
?

LH

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>15 August 1954, Galveston (TX) News, pg. 22, col. 5:
>_Island Pickups by..._
>_THE BEACHCOMBER_
>_...Christie Mitchell_
>(...)
>Betty Jean Bird of the Pirate Club has what she claims the smallest French
>poodle in the nation...It's no bigger than a New York minute and that's only
>thirty seconds.
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