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

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:17 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole wrote:

> Thanks for your responses. I do not recall hearing this interesting
> song (or the Picasso-Dali remarks)  before. Perhaps Peter Cook's
> creative process was influenced. (This assumes that the cartoon
> appeared after the song).
> Garson
>
Well, the song was 1967, so I'd think so.  But who knows for sure.

LH


> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:52 PM, 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> wrote:
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>>>>            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
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>> younger than us, arnold--everything's relative
>>
>> LH
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