google-shmoogle: a query on a hard to search item

[Mark Mandel]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> > As in the various one-liners along the lines of "Ethnic-shmethnic, as
> > long as he's Jewish" or "Catholic-Shmatholic, as long as she's rich".
>
> Not to mention the locus classicus for many Americans...
>
> "Consequences, shmonsequences! So long as I'm rich!"
> Â --Daffy Duck in "Ali Baba Bunny" (Chuck Jones, 1957)

Actually the one I had in mind was "Cancer, shmancer, as long as
you've got your health!"

Mark Mandel

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