"Knock, Knock" Not in OED

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 5, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> 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.
>
>
a bit of ar(r)id humor there?

LH

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