[Ads-l] A kind of interdating

[Jonathan Lighter]

Based on the novel by Marion Hargrove, author of the WW2 bestseller,
_See Here, Private Hargrove!_

In which the phrase does not appear.

But wait a minute!  Did movies say "ass" in 1956?

JL

JL

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> HDAS Page 42 dates the expression
>
> "Your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower"
>
> from 1955-56.
>
> In the movie, _The Girl He Left Behind_, released October 26, 1956, Murray
> Hamilton, as Army Drill Sergeant Buck, says to Tab Hunter, as Army
> basic-trainee, Recruit Schaeffer:
>
> "Your ass is grass and I'm the lawnmower!"
>
> Since the only way to verify this, if you haven't seen the movie, is to see
> the movie...
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
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