"Kubla Khan and Ollie"

[Joel S. Berson]

I remember them, although distantly; but why is this an eggcorn?

Joel

At 11/22/2013 04:05 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Uttered by Mike Francesa, normally a sports talk host on WFAN but
>today reminiscing about television broadcasts on and about November
>22, 1963.  (You young whippersnapper will want to google "Kukla,
>Fran, and Ollie" to see what this is an eggcorn for; it was a
>favorite show of mine some years before '63, and indeed it seems to
>have been off the air after 1957.)
>
>LH
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