[Ads-l] Famous Quotations from Comic Strips

[Dan Goncharoff]

Just a thought: I don't know if Dick Tracy was the source of the term
"Crimestopper", but it certainly popularized it.

DanG

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> For the second edition of the Yale Book of Quotations, I would welcome
> suggestions of famous quotes from comic strips.  These could be one-off
> quotes or could be recurring catchphrases (like "leapin' lizards" from
> Little Orphan Annie).  I believe I already have the more famous lines from
> Peanuts and Pogo.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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