[Ads-l] Restricted access to "Stars and Stripes" and "The buck stops here"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sure it isn't an old ice hockey expression?

JL

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> And the Marilyn Monroe movie (or the William Inge play it was based =
> on)would not have been as successful if it had been called "The Bus =
> Stops Here".
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> LH
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> On Feb 11, 2015, at 6:34 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > That's also what they said/ say in NYC.
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> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
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> >>> "The bus stops here"
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> >> Are there any such signs?
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> >> In St. Louis, they read, "Bus Stop | No Parking Here [in order] To =
> Corner."
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