New proverb identifies beauty's source

[Jonathan Lighter]

Antedating:

That should have been "Jan. 18, 1998."

JL


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> "Beauty," they say, "is in the eye of the beer-holder."
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> And they've been saying it at least since Jan. 19, 1998, when it appeared
> as one of a number of "Bumper Stickers" reported by _European Stars and
> Stripes_  (Darmstadt, Hesse) p.7 (NewspArch calls it p. "55" for some
> reason: prob. it's p. 7 of the Sunday feature section).
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> Not in YBQ or DMP. Apparently.
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> JL
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