"Take Me to Your Leader"

[Joel S. Berson]

Isn't there a New Yorker cartoon?  Someone with the CD might be able
to look it up.

Joel

At 2/9/2007 09:48 AM, you wrote:
>This is from hazy recollection, but I thought the expression arose
>from Martians who (supposedly) landed on earth.
>In this connection I remember hearing a joke from ca. 1958:  A space
>ship from Mars landed on earth, and the first person the
>space-travelers met was Brigitte Bardot.  The Martian told her:
>"Take me to your leader [slight pause]later."
>
>Gerald Cohen
>
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>From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Fred Shapiro
>Sent: Thu 2/8/2007 1:01 PM
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>Subject: "Take Me to Your Leader"
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>See Yale Book of Quotations, page 320, for apparent source of this
>expression in a 1953 New Yorker cartoon ("Kindly take us to your
>President!").  The exact phrase "Take us to your leader!" appears in
>Washington Post and Times Herald, July 14, 1955, page 43, in Walter
>Winchell's column (I am coming to believe that Walter Winchell was a major
>but uncredited originator of important quotations).
>
>In a non-science-fiction context, "now take us to your leader" (American
>soldier to Resistance fighters) appears in the Scorchy Smith comic strip as
>found in The Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minnesota), 23 March 1944, page 14.
>
>I would welcome any improvements on the above evidence.
>
>Fred Shapiro
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