"a nice girl like you"

[Stephen Goranson]

Here's a 1958 newspaper use:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FrExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=znYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5913,4846354&dq=what+sa+nice+girl+like+you+doing+in+a+place+like+this&hl=en

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
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Subject: [ADS-L] "a nice girl like you"

YBQ lacks the classic, facetious pick-up line, "What's a nice girl like you
doing in a place like this?"

But what's even worse is that GB searches don't take it back any earlier
than the 1990s - despite the fact that I recall it well from high school,
very probably because Martin Scorsese directed a short feature with that
title in 1963. (I used the phrase frequently, and it got me nowhere.)

I haven't checked elsewhere.

But WTH's with GB?

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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