[Ads-l] CPT (1912), on Barry Popik's website

[Jonathan Lighter]

The N.Y. Daily News headlined the BIll & Hillary show as:

"Skit For Brains!"

They didn't mean "a skit for the highly intelligent" either.

PS: Is this sense of "either" in OED? Too lazy to look.

JL

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > CPT
>
>
> Is that meant as a euphemism? The only version that I've ever heard is what
> I picture as "C.P. Time/"c.p. time," explained as "colored people's time,"
> C.P. Time/c.p. time being no more transparent, when first heard, than "CPT"
> is. Of course, what was clearly the case in 1940's Saint Louis isn't
> necessarily the case in any other place at any other time.
>
> And, of course, as Barry notes," 'C. P. T.' was cited in the novel _Nigger
> Heaven_ (1926) by Carl Van Vechten."
>
> Case closed.
> --
> -Wilson
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