"Same time, same station"

[Benjamin Barrett]

We always said "same bat time, same bat station," mimicking "Batman".

Benjamin Barrett
a cyberbreath for language life
http://livinglanguages.wordpress.com

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> I remember it from '50s TV for certain, possibly some syndicated kids' shows.
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>   This is the first time I've encountered it used this way, though.
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>   JL
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> 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?
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> 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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