fun with phrases

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>"But, wait! There's more!"
>
> A clear ex. (in a magazine ad) from 1915, something of a jump after 1940, a
> rising tide after 1980.
>
> "You won't believe your eyes!"
>
> ECCO finds one from about 1713 [!]. Then there's nothing till an ex. in an
> 1886 novel by George Gissing; a low baseline of use from the '20s through
> the '60s (almost exclusively in ads), then the lid blows off.
>

"(Coming up) next! … reveal(s) the *shocking* result / answer /
outcome / solution / etc.!"

"?A? ?A? ?Aah! Don't touch that dial! / ,,, change that channel!"

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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