Village's missing idiot

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/9/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> As early as 31 July 1997, a quotation appeared in the _Pittsburg Post Gazette_:
> "'Somewhere in the world, there are two villages missing their idiots,' one police
> officer theorized."

The "somewhere in the world" line was also used on Usenet as early as
Jan. 28, 1997.

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--Ben Zimmer

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