Bob's Your Uncle: Antedating and History

[Baker, John]

It's true, the speaker was not complaining that his own job was too easy.


John Baker


> On Aug 25, 2014, at 7:10 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A better example comes from the Yorkshire Evening Post on January 11, 1937,
>> in an account by a parson of a conversation with a man who thought he had
>> an easy job:
> 
>   -
> 
> A better example comes from the Yorkshire Evening Post on January 11, 1937,
> in an account by a parson of a conversation with a man who thought _the
> parson_
> had an easy job:
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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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