"Same time, same station"

[Wilson Gray]

My goodness, Beverly! How old *are* you?! I, too, remember this phrase
from radio days, but not "from the *early* days of radio"! :-)

-Wilson

On 4/25/07, 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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