New Yorker

[Alice Faber]

James A. Landau wrote:
> On Tue 02/13/07 at the whiching hour of 12:06 AM Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU> quoted:
>
> "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
>
> I cannot figure out how this quote is relevant to the question I posed, namely whether The New Yorker magazine provides enough circulation for a phrase to make it part of everyday English.

I *thought* I was providing an example of a catchphrase that *clearly*
originated in The New Yorker.

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