"Same time, same station"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I remember it from '50s TV for certain, possibly some syndicated kids' shows.

  This is the first time I've encountered it used this way, though.

  JL

Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIO.EDU> wrote:
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That's an old phrase from my childhood, presumably from the early days of
radio?

At 12:10 PM 4/25/2007, you wrote:
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>Meaning "in precisely the same predictable way":
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> 2002 Laurence A. Rickels _Nazi Psychoanalysis_ (Univ. of Minnesota
> Press) 67: Same time, same station as the essay "On the Uncanny," Freud's
> "Introduction to _Psychoanalysis and the War Neuroses_" characterizes the
> psychological conflict of shell shock in terms of the internal doubling
> that pits one ego against the other one: [Quote from Freud]."
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> JL
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