"Only When I Laugh!"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/12/2013 11:32 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>6 July 1940
>...The toughest man I've heard of was a gentleman who had the
>misfortune to run into an assegai in the Zulu War.
>"does it 'urt much?" asked his mate?
>"Only when I laugh," he answered.

So can we antedate it into the 19th century?  And which Zulu War?

Joel


>http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/40952033?searchTerm=%22only%20when%20i%20laugh%22&searchLimits=l-textSearchScope=*ignore*|*ignore*|||exactPhrase=only+when+i+laugh|||l-word=*ignore*|*ignore*|||fromyyyy|||notWords|||anyWords|||tomm|||toyyyy|||todd|||frommm|||fromdd|||sortby=dateAsc
>
>http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/
>
>Stephen Goranson
>www.duke.edu/~goranson

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