Fun with phrases

[Jonathan Lighter]

"...guy" isn't in GB till 1998.

JL

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:07 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Person"? Seriously? I would have expected, "Don't be that guy!" This
> doesn't mean that "person" does not happen--obviously it does. But this may
> be yet another chicken/egg question...
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> VS-)
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>w=
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>> "Don't *be* that person!"
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>> =3D 'Don't be that kind of person' and/or 'Don't find yourself in that
>> unpleasant situation.'
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>> 1985 Cheryl Reimold _The Woman's Guide to Staying Safe_ (N.Y.: Monarch
>> Press) 38:   Would-be burglars often ring many apartments until
>> someone foolishly lets them in =97 don't be that person.
>>
>> Many, many over the past few years.  I can recall a magazine article
>> of the early '90s advising, "Don't be that dude!" (I.e., "Don't dress
>> or behave that way, chaps, if you wish to impress innumerable
>> nymphets.")
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>> I've also heard, in self-reproach, "I don't want to be that person!"
>> (i.e., that sort of unpleasant person).
>>
>> JL
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>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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>> > As you'd expect from Mr. Clean.
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>> > JL
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>> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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