Quote: I'm too fucking busy and vice versa (antedating Dorothy Parker 1967 September)

[Garson O'Toole]

Challenge antedate 1970:
Dorothy Parker: Tell him I've been too fucking busy -- or vice versa.

Here is a cite in 1967 and another in 1968. Both have been verified on paper.

Checking the 1967 cite on paper was tricky. The Google Books page
number was incorrect because the GB pagination algorithm was fooled.
The initial page(s) or some magazines are not numbered. The GB
algorithm continued the page numbering scheme from one issue into the
next issue.

The Volume 6, Number 1 issue of Ramparts stops numbering at 68 pages.
The GB algorithm decided that the unnumbered page 1 of Volume 6,
Number 2 should be numbered 73 instead of 1.

Hope this information may help others to find pages that GB has
incorrectly numbered.


Cite: 1967 September, Ramparts, "Apologia:" Page 1 (Google Books Page
73 incorrect), Volume 6, Number 2, Layman's Press, Noah's Ark, Inc.
(Google Books snippet view; Verified on paper)

If pressed for further explanation, we
can only refer you to the legendary re-
mark of Miss Dorothy Parker when
being dunned for her New Yorker copy
by a messenger. The errand boy had been
pounding on the door of her East Hamp-
ton house for 15 minutes when, finally,
a second story window shot open. "What
do you want?" Miss Parker yelled. "I'm
here to get your copy for Mr. Ross," the
boy said. "Well," Miss Parker replied,
shutting the window, "You tell Ross I'm
too fucking busy and vice versa." W.H.

http://books.google.com/books?id=QxHZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fucking+busy%22#search_anchor


Cite: 1968, The Unimportance of Being Oscar by Oscar Levant, Page 89,
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. (Google Books snippet view; Verified on
paper)

Most of her early quips are too well known to bear repeating—
but we all have our favorites. One came about when she was
the book critic for the New Yorker. She was being pressured for
her overdue copy and blithely sent word: "Too fucking busy
and vice versa."

http://books.google.com/books?id=UIUnAQAAIAAJ&q=fucking#search_anchor

Garson

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