[Ads-l] No = 'yes; truly'

[Wilson Gray]

Is he saying "aeroplane" and not "airplane," in 1959?!

Did anybody else catch the reference to the Clyde Beatty Circus? That also
surprised me. That was the circus that came to town in Marshall, Texas -
where _aeroplane_ was pronounced "arra-plan" - when I was but a tad. The
circus train passed within a half-block of the family manse and its passage
was a major cultural event in the colored part of town.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am starting to feel from the depths of memory that this use of "No!" has
> long been common among standup comedians, though I can't prove it with exx.
> and don't know why it should be so.
>
> Well, here's one example:
>
> INSULT COMIC:  I'd love to beat Oprah. I know her *weakness.*
>
> AUDIENCE:  [Cheers].
>
> COMIC:  No, no. I know her weakness.
>
> JL
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
>
> > And Taylor.
> >
> > Jim Parish
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/5/2018 1:03 PM, W Brewer wrote:
> >
> >> Seems like FDR turned out to be president-for-life. Oh, yeah, Lincoln,
> >> too;
> >> Garfield, McKinley, JFK; Harrison & Harding.
> >>
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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