fun with phrases

[Dan Goncharoff]

It happened by 1974:
New York Magazine - May 13, 1974 - Page 104
Vol. 7, No. 19 - 116 pages - Magazine - Full view
To take last things first, we hasten to note that you don't have to be
Jewish to dislike Kazablan — an Israeli movie based on an Israeli
stage musical based on an Israeli stage play — but it helps, at very
least in the perception of the ...

DanG



On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> On Oct 4, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>> "You don't have to be crazy to *  - but it helps!"
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>> 1925 _N.Y. Times_ (Nov. 2) 20 [rev. of movie "Classified"]: One of the
>> captions, written by Ralph Spence, reads: You don't have to be crazy to
>> dance the Charleston, but it helps."
>>
>
> …Seems like this slogan could have combined nicely with those billboards for Levy's Rye bread to yield plausible ads for other products:
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> "You don't have to be Jewish to eat our gefilte fish (stuffed derma, gribenes, ptcha, etc.)--but it helps!"
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> LH
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