OED Appeals list (UNCLASSIFIED); Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jun 22 14:41:43 UTC 2007


On 6/22/07, Doug Harris <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> I believe it was a New Yorker cartoon with a great variation on this theme:
> A man on a telephone saying, "No, Thursday won't work. How about never?"

Robert Mankoff, May 3, 1993.

http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?sid=25186


--Ben Zimmer

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