"Same time, same station"

[Beverly Flanigan]

Well, I don't know how "early" radio was, so I was generalizing.  Let's
just say I'm your contemporary, Wilson!

At 04:34 PM 4/25/2007, you wrote:
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>My goodness, Beverly! How old *are* you?! I, too, remember this phrase
>from radio days, but not "from the *early* days of radio"! :-)
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>-Wilson
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>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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> > >Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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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]."
> > >
> > >   JL
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