pepsi offers "more happy"

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Jun 10 00:45:30 UTC 2007


On Jun 9, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Jon Lighter wrote:

> I may have mentioned this once, but forty-plus years ago (and more)
> WCBS-TV "weather-girl" Carol Reed used to sign off each and every
> day by saying, "Have a happy!"
>
>   No sexual associations expected.

surely this one is just a truncation, of "Have a happy day".

arnold

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