"...said no one ever"

[Jonathan Lighter]

So new I've never heard of it.

JL


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Mar 30, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> > A new Denny's commercial capitalizes on an online meme:
> >
> > www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPC83EzU3fA
> > "That's too much bacon… said no one ever!"
> >
> > Some background on "said no one ever":
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> > http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/said-no-one-ever
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> > It resembles retro "not" of Wayne's World fame, but the negation is more
> > categorical.
> >
> I've noticed this too, I thought as a tag on the Seth Meyers Weekend
> Update segment on the current incarnation of SNL.  I don't see any cites to
> him, though, so I may have merged "said no one/nobody ever" with one of his
> devices.
>
> LH
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