[Ads-l] "What Happens in" story is now online (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

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> I was interviewed by the New York Times for a Kavanaugh-related video story on the origin of the phrase "What happens in X stays in X."  I
> have a very brief speaking appearance near the beginning of the clip.  (The Kavanaugh connection to the phrase is that the judge uses it a
> lot, as in "What happens in Georgetown Prep stays in Georgetown Prep" or "What happens on the bus [returning to Yale Law School after
> bar-hopping in Boston] stays on the bus" or "What happens at the Federalist Society after-party stays in the Federalist Society after-party.")
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> Fred Shapiro
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I notice that the narrator uses the phrase, "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink" (I used "wink wink nudge nudge" yesterday in a post.)

Does this come from the Monty Python sketch?  
https://youtu.be/SrDFGa0juCM?t=93
Or is it earlier?
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