MA tornadoes

[Jonathan Lighter]

I heard "Let's have a listen" by 1970 - and probably ten years before that.
ISTR that disk jockeys often used it.

JL

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:52 AM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Give a listen, take a listen--it all works out in the end...
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> VS-)
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> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:31 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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> > > "take a listen"
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> > "Give a listen," in olden days of yore.
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> > --
> > -Wilson
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