"outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mark Mandel]

My mistake; I meant to say "film career". My point was that he had a long
career before 1954.

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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Mark Mandel
> > Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:32 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: "outside of a dog"
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> > I forwarded this (with Garson's link) to my wife, a retired librarian.
> > She
> > replies:
> >
> > Objects produced for sale by the American Library Association
> attribute
> > the
> > > remark to Groucho Marx. I wouldn't mess with the ALA when it comes
> to
> > > citations.
> > >
> >
> > Which may mean they know something we haven't come up with, or that
> > they're
> > not immune to pop attribution, or that it doesn't matter to them in
> > this
> > case.
> >
> > Do any of the Groucho attributions offer checkable citations? By 1954
> > Groucho was sixty and his career was largely over. (
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx)
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> "Largely over"?????  He continued to do "You Bet Your Life" on TV until
> 1961, and beyond in re-runs.  I'll bet more people saw him on TV from
> 1954-1961 than ever saw him on film or stage together.
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