"Knock, Knock" Not in OED

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 5 17:58:36 UTC 2013


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> "Knock! Knock!"
>
> "Who's there?"
>

"Don!"

"Don who?"

"Don be half-safe!"


If you get the point of that, you *may* be elderly.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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