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

[W Brewer]

And when she whispered wetly in my ear "Je t'adore," I got up and closed
the door.


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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> > On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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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!
> >
> > arnold
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> younger than us, arnold--everything's relative
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> LH
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