Query: "$64,000 quesiton"

Sam Clements SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Wed May 9 03:30:43 UTC 2007


Jeebus.  How many old coots are on here, anyways?

SC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Query: "$64,000 quesiton"


> "Write [Right] with Eversharp!" to coin a phrase, Sam.
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 5/8/07, Sam Clements <SClements at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> ---------------------- Information from the mail
>> header -----------------------
>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
>> Subject:      Re: Query: "$64,000 quesiton"
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The original radio show was "Take it or Leave It" which debuted in 1940
>> and
>> ran until 1947. They asked questions which went up to a prize of "$64."
>>
>> The phrase "$64 question" was, by 1942, pretty well known to many
>> Americans
>> and used in newspaper stories from that date.
>>
>> The ACTUAL radio show "The $64 Question" debuted in 1950 and ran until
>> 1952.
>>
>> The "$64,000 Question" debuted in 1955 and ran until 1958.
>>
>> Sam Clements
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>>
>
>
> --
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
>                                              -Sam'l Clemens
> ------
> The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.
>
>                                           Rumanian proverb
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list