Repartee: "I'm writing a book." "Neither am I." (attrib Peter Cook 1984)

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> Subject:      Re: Repartee: "I'm writing a book." "Neither am I." (attrib Peter
>>             Cook 1984)
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>> Recalling Serge Gainsbourg's top o' the charts song from the late 1960s in France, "Je t'aime…moi non plus". See
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_t%27aime..._moi_non_plus
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>> for more than you want to know about the history of the song, if you're not of a certain age. I hadn't known about the Picasso-Dali "me neither" exchange (real or apocryphal as the case may be) before reading this wiki write-up.  Here's a video of the song--there are others, but this one seems particularly French (and hence NSFW, depending on the W):
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpDf6XX_j0
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> omg, jane birkin is 66 now!
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> arnold
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younger than us, arnold--everything's relative

LH

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