[Ads-l] Zilch

[Joel Berson]

That's what I was sensing.

Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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 Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 3:05 PM
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>From "a nobody" to "none" to "a zero" to "nothing."

More or less.



JL

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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> Slightly earlier for "Joe Zilch"
>
> Mt Carmel PA _Daily News_ 16 Jun 1925 p 2 col 3 (from O. O. McIntyre
> syndic=
> ated column "New York Day by Day") (Newspapers.com)
> "Frank Tinney used to have a comedy name which brought many chortles.  He
> u=
> 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."
>
> _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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