New Yorker

[Sam Clements]

In case it isn't clear, Fred Shapiro's YBofQ says that the New Yorker
cartoon in 1993 was the earliest cite for "internet/dog"

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice Faber" <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: New Yorker


> 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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