Back to you and I (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Paul]

paul johnson wrote
I can only remember ever hearing:
"between you,me and the lamppost" , never heard the phrase with 2 'ands'

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> Lamppost, gatepost, fencepost -- I've heard them all.
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>> Actually, yes! The first of *many*:
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>>   Reynolds, 53, placed sandbags around the 4-foot-high oak, but water
>> seeped in. He used towels to sop up the excess, but that also failed.
>> "Between you and I and the lamppost, I don't think it's going to make
>> it," he said.
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>> VS-)
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>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Jonathan Lighter
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Does anybody say, "Between you and *I* and the lamppost?"
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>>> FWIW, my grandparents, with high-school diplomas from ca1905, said
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>> "between
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>>> you and me."
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>>> JL
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