[Ads-l] Peter Reitan's work on origins of Alfred E. Neuman and "What -- Me Worry?"

[Wilson Gray]

"... the dog barking at the gramophone for RCA."

The dog is *listening to* _His Master's Voice_, as RCA-Victor's slogan
clearly stated, not "*barking at* the gramomphone."

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU>
> Subject:      Peter Reitan's work on origins of Alfred E. Neuman and "What
> --
>               Me Worry?"
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Independent scholar Peter Reitan shared the item below with several
> people,=
>  and with his permission I now forward it to ads-l:
>
> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03/03/a-boy-with-no-birthday-turns-=
> sixty/
>
> G. Cohen =
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



-- 
-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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org