[Ads-l] Zilch

[Jonathan Lighter]

You can also divert yourself with "Zorch!"

Another surname (w/o the "!").

JL

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> From "a nobody" to "none" to "a zero" to "nothing."
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> More or less.
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> JL
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> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
> william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
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>> Poster:       "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)" <william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL>
>> Subject:      Re: Zilch
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>> Slightly earlier for "Joe Zilch"
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>> Mt Carmel PA _Daily News_ 16 Jun 1925 p 2 col 3 (from O. O. McIntyre
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>> ated column "New York Day by Day") (Newspapers.com)
>> "Frank Tinney used to have a comedy name which brought many chortles.  He
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>> sed it as a peg upon which to hang an occasional wheeze.  It was Joe
>> Zilch.=
>>   This was real -- the name of a husband of a girl in the show.  She
>> recent=
>> ly divorced him and said among other things she was tired of the comedy
>> nam=
>> e."
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>> _Variety_ 10/7/1925 p 9 col 3
>> "We have been an ardent Vreeland fan ever since he first started his
>> theatr=
>> ical comment column in the "Herald," yet if we met him on the street we
>> wou=
>> ldn't know him from Joe Zilch."=
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